Frank Zappa Quotes
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.
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Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.
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People don't realise I have seriously bad blepharitis.
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When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
