Moon Unit Zappa Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I have fabulous children.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.
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I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
