Ronald Frame Quotes

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Ronald Frame

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TimePeopleMeFaceTreesShort

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

Joanna Newsom

MusicBeautifulMeWritingListen

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Andrew Young

MeBeenWantedOutspokenJimmy

I know it sounds so dumb, but when you've had pink hair for 12 years and take that away, you're looked at in a different light.

Jeffree Star

LightHairPinkYouDumbKnow

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Michael Gambon

CarMoreDifficultAlwaysExpensive

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

Alton Brown

GodThankfulFoodGratefulGrace

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

LifeMistakesDuesFullPartPays

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

Steve Zahn

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Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

Tom Cotton

DriveBudgetStrategyMilitaryMust

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

DeAngelo Williams

MeStand UpStandNeedUpGoing

Whenever you have an animal and bring another one into the house, it's a very traumatic event. It's a story as old as bringing home a second child from the hospital, when the first child kind of goes, 'Hey, aren't I enough?'

Chris Renaud

HomeAnimalChildStoryEnoughYou

It's an Olympic Games, at the end of the day, and to represent your country at the Olympics is about as good as it gets. Put a gold medal on top of that, and it doesn't ever get any better.

Bradley Wiggins

GoodDayGoldEndBetterCountry

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

Ryan McGinley

WorkGreatPeopleDoingArtistLook

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