Frank Zappa Quotes
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I'm cranky.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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The very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
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Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
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'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
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I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
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I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.
