Frank Moore Colby Quotes
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
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I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there's an upside: I have more opportunity to tell bigger stories and connect with more people. And I really relish that responsibility.
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Time is bunk.
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
