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Ronald Frame Quotes

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

Ronald Frame

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 23, 1953

Topics

Me Think Ten Years Person Defeated

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

Jimmy Sangster

Mind Evil Face Patterns Benevolence

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

Joe Johnston

Character Unexpected Black-And-White

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

Jo Nesbo

Change Good Book Think Pressure You

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.

Ann Powers

Women Music Space Thought Tradition

Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.

Merlin Olsen

Team You Days Keep Field Those

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

Stephen Bayley

Age Experience Win World Free Sword

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

Trevor Paglen

Good Eyes Art People Think Better

In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.

Tom DeLay

Fight People Short Earth Congress

There's no such thing as putting extra effort in on one day than the other. Every single day is a lot of effort, usually maximum effort every day.

Rob Gronkowski

Day Effort Every Day One Day Single

I'm not going to get any taller, so I might as well get as strong and lean as I possibly can be.

Mike Daniels

Strong Going Well Get Might Lean

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Mohsin Hamid

Faith Religion People Choose Born

I'm surprised at the loyalty of the country music fan. People that started out with us at 'Prayin' for Daylight' still come to multiple shows a year.

Jay DeMarcus

Music Loyalty People Year Country