Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.
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Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
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I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.
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That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
