W.D. Frank Quotes

I don't intend to stop making music.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I know what they are.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.

Its important for us as Democrats to stick together.

Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.

People enjoy media and games in different ways - some people enjoy something that they can take seriously and invest themselves in. That's something we're comfortable with.

We owe a lot to the Internet, for introducing people to technology and virtual space and what not.

No one ever complained their way to the top.

Market share is king. You cannot afford to replace lost market share.

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn.

A business that doesn’t change is a business that is going to die.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.

Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them.

D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

I wonder who's kissing her now, Wonder who's teaching her how.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.

Deco, it was a pleasure to have worked with you.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.