Frank Zappa Quotes
Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I just want to do my job.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
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Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.
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I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'
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Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.
