Fred Frith Quotes
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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I shop more than most women.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
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We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.
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'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.
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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
