Frank Abagnale Quotes
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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God often has to untangle some things in you to help you see Him. Even if this process takes months, it's not because he is waiting to see how sincere you are; it's because he is working deep inside you to sort out those things that crowd him out of your heart and set your focus on your own efforts or your own failures.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I'm really quite simple.
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I don't do online banking.
