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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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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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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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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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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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
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You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.
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I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
