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Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 15, 1881 - March 23, 1960

Topics

Good Country Trouble Cost Quarter

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Confidence City Destroy Economic

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

Good Wind Back Train Place Meet

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

Confidence Parents Someone Hippie

Who would I be if I complained about having a father that provided for me? Who would I be if I was complaining about having a father who loved me? That would make me a real jerk.

John David Washington

Father Me Loved Complaining Real

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation.

History Light Child Growing Up World

Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.

Bad Done Policy Rush Tends

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

Motivational Alone Wife Being Alone

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

Work Progress Man World Interesting

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

Michael Morpurgo

Memory Me Story Create My Own Real

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

Day More Republican Modern Fit Than

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

Day Job End Of The Day End You Down

Our experience making 'Pieces,' all it did was confirm our passion for film making to ourselves. We were having the time of our lives, and we were in love with what we were doing.

Love Passion Time Experience Doing

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