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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What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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May hope rise within you. May peace wash over you.
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There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?
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From where they stood, they could see the castle.
