Freddy Fender Quotes
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.
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In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.
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I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
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Singing is one of the most important components to me. That's kinda how it all started.
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My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
