Frank Pierson Quotes

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Frank Pierson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Jerry Garcia

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Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Anna Paquin

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Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Michael Haneke

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What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.

Stefano Gabbana

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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

Jonah Goldberg

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I took up acting upon the insistence of my filmmaker father, Kasthuri Raja. But I am glad for it: sometimes one identifies one's calling; sometimes it singles one out.

Dhanush

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Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

Dean Ornish

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Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chris Cannon

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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Arthur Keith

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Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

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I always related my favorite music to the movies.

Petra Haden

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When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.

Sharon Creech

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