Frank Shorter Quotes
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
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Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.
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So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
