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Mary Frann Quotes

I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1943 - September 23, 1998

Topics

Life Think Interesting Perfect Makes

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

Mother Growing Up Singing Growing Up

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Celebration Adoption Treated

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

Miranda Richardson

Experience Me Writing Control You

I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.

Great Actor Become Somebody Like

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

Christopher Cross

Great People Doing You Numbers Say

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.

Dance Dark Serious Nice Contrast

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Point Eternity Match

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

Marriage Laughter Think You Look

When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green.

Brunello Cucinelli

Mother Age Me Green Know Said

In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.'

Work Light Walk Step Me You

During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.

Character Mistakes Writing Negative

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

Children People Retirement You Say

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