James Bernard Frost Quotes
For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
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Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
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Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
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In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.
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The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.
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For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
