Frances Bay Quotes
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I like risky stuff.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I like music a lot.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
