#ak

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. ↗

— Connie Francis

#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't. ↗

— Connie Francis

#because #definitely #encouraged #had #hated

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it. ↗

— Genie Francis

#childhood #developmental #domain #goes #had

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. ↗

— Anne Frank

#happy #make #others #too #whoever

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#madmen #makes #potential

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. ↗

— Robert Frank

#enough #good #humanity #kind #make

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it. ↗

— Al Franken

#advantages #being #book #down #easier

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. ↗

— Al Franken

#biases #bigger #conservative #cover #doing

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks. ↗

— Al Franken

#capital #enough #everybody #first #foot

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#because #business #directors #ever #first