Connor Franta Quotes
I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The Thirst Project through Common Culture Coffee.
Quotes to Explore
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.
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You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.
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I was not prepared to live as a single parent.
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I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the verses, I can get a little more free form. I don't really like to copy and paste things.
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In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
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I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The Thirst Project through Common Culture Coffee.
