Frank Yerby Quotes
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
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War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
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You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
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I think that you have to get out there and get with the folks and push the flesh and be connected to viewers and listeners.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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From where they stood, they could see the castle.
