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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
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White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
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I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.
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Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?
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I'm definitely seeing more and more new people at shows, which is exciting. It's nice for me, because it's a fresh start. I don't feel as obligated to play old favorite songs - it feels like I'm free to try new things because I'm meeting people for the first time. But there's a lot of people who are showing up and they know all the words to the first album and they're requesting songs from the second album.
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
