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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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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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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I love to pick tomatoes at the end of the day, when they're still warm from the sun.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I've always thought it's a great privilege to be a part of the NFL. Every day, you just treasure it.
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When you are doing music videos through the '90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really, as an independent filmmaker. You were being financed by a major record company or a minor record company or whatever.
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Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.
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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
