Fred Frith Quotes
Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
Quotes to Explore
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.
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To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.
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Even the most 'Rational' people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.
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No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
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My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.
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I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you get 50 words published in 'The New Yorker,' it's more important than 50 articles in other places. So, would I love to one day write for them? I guess. But that's not my sole ambition.
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I have Bright's disease and he has mine.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
