Franklin P. Jones Quotes

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

Franklin P. Jones

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I really like Larry Clark's films, as weird as that is. I like Richard Kern films.

Jody Hill

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If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

Jessi Klein

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It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.

Meghan Daum

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My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Michael Ignatieff

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I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

Steve Schirripa

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It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.

Rory Bremner

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My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

Louis MacNeice

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There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

Dennis Farina

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Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Wilma Mankiller

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While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

Susanna Moore

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I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

Peter Fonda

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