Frankie Shaw Quotes

When I first had Isaac, I only owned a mattress. Now I have a show?

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• I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Single

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Growth

• My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Education
  • Process

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Find

• When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Life
  • Know
  • Deep

• I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Life
  • Believe
  • American

• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Friend
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Serious

• I want to inspire, and be inspired.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Inspire

• Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Brazil

• Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Desire

• He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Great

• Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Listening

• I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

  

  Jennifer Tilly
  • House
  • Beach
  • Blow

• You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Long
  • Money
  • Decision

• Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

  

  Clark Blaise
  • Friends
  • Hood

• I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Trying

• When I first had Isaac, I only owned a mattress. Now I have a show?

  

  Frankie Shaw