Frank O'Hara Quotes
The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptianheroes, lies inlives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.
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You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.
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What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
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The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptianheroes, lies inlives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions.
