Frank Pierson Quotes

It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater... that we were going to share an experience together. That when we walked away where there would be something to talk about in that movie that had some meaning and relevance in our lives. And I think that we have lost that.

Frank Pierson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1925 - July 22, 2012

Topics

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Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Joe DiMaggio

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When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

Jeremy Renner

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When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.

Robert Gober

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I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

Ann Hood

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My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

Michael Cera

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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Tom Shadyac

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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Josh Homme

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Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.

Jonathan Miles

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I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.

Cole Swindell

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If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.

Brie Larson

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The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

Arthur Smith

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