Frank Black Quotes

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

Frank Black

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• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
  • Intelligently

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I love all things Christmas.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Things
  • Christmas

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Clever

• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Mountain

• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Best
  • Environment
  • Connection

• I believe in doing what I am best at.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Best

• It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Up
  • Gun
  • Down

• You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Game
  • You
  • Alert

• I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Like

• Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Good
  • May
  • Action

• There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

  

  David Guetta
  • Music
  • Different
  • Together

• Being able to do research in a real-time way is the way research needs to be done in the future.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Time
  • Real
  • Done

• The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Important

• As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

  

  Frank Black
  • Music
  • Real
  • Job