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David Frankel Quotes

Steve Martin is a legendary actor and a wonderful person to work with. He's incredibly well prepared, and funny off the set.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: April 2, 1959

Topics

Work Funny Person Actor Wonderful

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

Jessie Matthews

Time Dance Perfect Numbers Play Big

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Music Today Soul Listen Never First

If you just want to be a star, go away.

You Go Want Star Just Go Away

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

Men World Problems Dream Never Need

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

Robert H. Grubbs

Science Teacher School Me High

Be yourself. Don't try too hard - it shows.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Yourself Be Yourself Try Hard Shows

Toni Morrison was a big influence on my work since I was a teenager, what she did with English. I joke that I think she speaks 20 Englishes simultaneously, that she knows how to do that.

Robin Coste Lewis

Work Influence Think She Joke Big

I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room.

Sleep Night Hotel First Room

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Forward You Everything Move Cannot

I'd love a job at Facebook.

Time Sister Middle Around

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

Penelope Lively

Children Literature Feeling Go See

The criminalization of file sharing is pathetic. It's so pathetic, it's almost funny. Imagine if the radio people would have lobbied for a federal law enforcement agency to raid all homes for illegal transmissions of moving picture experiments in order to stop the invention of television. It's ludicrous.

Funny People Law Law Enforcement

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