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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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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Presence is more than just being there.
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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I think everybody thinks they're an amazing singer, but I'm one of those guys who realizes where his limitations are, and it's definitely with singing and dancing.
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After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.
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We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
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In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
