Ian Frazier Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
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Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Growing up in the industry, sometimes you can feel as if you're not having a normal childhood, but I feel like my parents involved me with a lot of people who made things as 'okay' as they possibly could.
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
