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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It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I love working with athletes. They're all very demanding.
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I can operate in half-a-song format.
