Frank Zappa Quotes
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.
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In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great albums - but don't be under the impression I'm going to be a lyricist that writes anything other than what strikes me as inspiring in the moment.' The lyrics weren't going to be focused politically.
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It was unbelievable! My family and close friends were sitting together till quite late in the night. People outside the gate just kept standing, hordes and hordes of them. It was overwhelming. I kept going out to meet them at half-hour intervals. But it just wasn't enough.
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What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.
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I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.
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I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
