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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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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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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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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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 company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.
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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
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I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.
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I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness.
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Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.
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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
