Frida Kahlo Quotes

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Frida Kahlo

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

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• I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.

  

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• I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

  

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• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

  Earl Campbell
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• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
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• I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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• When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  

  Gary Allan
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• We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

  

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• From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

  

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• One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

  

  Kate Bush
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• It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  

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• The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

  

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• When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.

  

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• I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I always tried to fit in, so I was a cheerleader with the orange skin and white-blonde hair, and Hooters was part of that.

  

  Katherine Ryan
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• The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

  

  Bill Dedman
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• Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

  

  Frida Kahlo