Frank Ocean Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it’s much better musically than much of what’s available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy’s girlfriend and how they broke up - a sincere one - is better than twenty albums of English rock that’s ever been produced.
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A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
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I can operate in half-a-song format.
