Francine Prose Quotes

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

Francine Prose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1947

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What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Jo Nesbo

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I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

Andrew Cuomo

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I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Melissa McCarthy

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I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love.

John Lydon

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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

Michael Caine

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I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

Roman Polanski

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It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

Lorrie Fair

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A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Brian Selznick

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In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

Prodigy

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In India, no one becomes prime minister before they are in their mid-70s.

Sharad Pawar

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South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.

Richard Stanley

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Some of my favorites include 'Walking the Room' and 'Never Not Funny' and 'FitzDog Radio', Greg Fitzsimmons' podcast.

Nikki Glaser

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