Moon Unit Zappa Quotes
How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
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There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.
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When I make a commitment I stick to it.
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The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
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My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border.
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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
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I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.
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I live in New York City. I'm 5-foot-9 and wear Rockport shoes that make me 5-foot-91/2. They're not lifts - I deny that - but they do set off the airport metal detector. My hair is starting to gray a little. I have a gold tooth in the back.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
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How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
