Frank Zappa Quotes
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Life is too short to blend in.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
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I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.
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Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, 'Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!' And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave.
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I purchased a whole case of these filters.
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On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
