Frankie Cosmos Quotes

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

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• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Target

• Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Employment
  • Economists

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Moment
  • Wind
  • Motto

• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Practice
  • Better
  • See

• Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Very
  • Throw

• Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Nothing

• I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Long
  • Know
  • Talent

• We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Reality
  • Often
  • Self-Love

• I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Doing
  • Tennis
  • Fishing

• It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

  

  Kanye West
  • Me
  • Never
  • Jeans

• When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off the air, I was 28 years old, married with two kids. At that point I felt I really wanted to be mommy to my children. But I found that after a year and a half, I really missed the part of myself that was an actress.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Children
  • School
  • Kids

• When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Great
  • High
  • Feeling

• Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Why
  • Service

• And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rest
  • Heaven
  • Blue

• Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,But I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any otherspeaker far more convincing when I agree withhim than when I disagree.

  

  Ogden Nash

• I'm not a big AA guy, but I'll go every once in a while. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. It seems like a simple thing to say, but it's really true.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • True
  • Guy

• Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Fish
  • Smoke
  • Mercury

• Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.

  

  William Cowper
  • Horse
  • Kissing
  • Courses

• I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Important
  • Quality

• I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

  

  Josh Young
  • Stuff
  • Watch
  • Filmed

• Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

  

  Frankie Cosmos