John Anthony Frusciante Quotes
A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.
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There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the most different writer from anything I've ever written, but there's something about those really spare sentences that is just tough - it would be too much of an influence. Grace Paley is my favorite writer. Her stuff is so voice-driven, when I read her a lot I want to make my writing more voice-y and dialogue-heavy. I love a lot of stuff in translation.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do; Eek for to winne love in sondry ages, In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
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A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
