Barney Frank Quotes
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
