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Frank Crane Quotes

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1861 - 1928

Topics

Good Motto Friends Your Friendliness

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

People First Seem Watch Who Like

I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

Yourself Writing You Clarity Want

Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad.

You Bad Now Same Whatever Out

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Jeanette Winterson

Legend Person Nobody Anything Knows

I've been a huge cricket fan since my teens, and I often used to go down to St. Helen's in Swansea in the summer. To me, it was like a 'rites of passage' experience to have the freedom of St. Helen's cricket ground.

Freedom Experience Me Cricket Down

The deck has always been stacked against me.

Me Always Against Been Deck Stacked

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Robinson Jeffers

Imagination Mind Solitude Traitor

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.

Life Freedom Time Think My Life You

I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.

Believe Trying I Believe Inclusive

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Politics American Political Nothing

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

Douglas Coupland

You Pen Want Special Out Tailor

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Time Imagination Want Understand Use

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