John Anthony Frusciante Quotes
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.
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I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle's Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.
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Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.
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I do a lot of traveling around the world.
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I'm interested in people with very exceptional world views or realities.
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I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?
