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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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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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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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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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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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
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The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that's how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it's a totally different story.
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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
