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Frances Farmer Quotes

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Frances Farmer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 19, 1913 - August 1, 1970

Topics

Teacher School Sunday Too Much True

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor

Friendship Secrecy Chastity

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

Andrew Haigh

Work People I Can Way Others Never

When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

Ann Nocenti

Green Strong Gun Enough You Choose

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Alvin Dark

Live Baseball Game Die Remember You

We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.

Robin DiAngelo

School People Color Black White

You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

Lucas Black

People Game Better Golf Trying You

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

Diane Kruger

Live Bike Paris Go Street Rent

My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

Chrissie Hynde

Me Down Never Heroes Disappointed

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.

Colin Trevorrow

Sometimes False About Leaks Thing

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

Brad Bird

Feel Absurd Like Parties Both

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Bob Newhart

Family Funny Think Environment You

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

Bobby Seale

Business Money Black Always Through