Frank Ocean Quotes
You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.
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You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
