Frankie Cosmos Quotes
I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
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I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
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Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.
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Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.
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Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
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If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with materials; that is, it is made of us. Art is life. And yet it is distinct from 'life.' Art is life's counterpoint. We make it, and in that making, art is pointedly not life. It is just made of us.
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I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.
