Frances Mayes Quotes
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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I'm not cynical.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
