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Frank Shorter Quotes

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1947

Topics

Live Think You Way Need Same

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

School College Small Scenery Year

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

Good Speak Will First Always Trump

I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

Good Nervous Sexuality Lover Very

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Failure Time Mistakes Moving On Past

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

Merle Dandridge

Work College Person Craft Hard Out

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

Stephen Ambrose

Book Better Always Last Favorite

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

Men Death Fight Battle Die Violence

I appreciate good work no matter where it's coming from.

Work Good Good Work Appreciate Where

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

Creative Identity People Think You

Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make.

You Go Sometimes Call Film Going

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Anthony de Mello

Mind Problems Human Human Mind Exist

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Learning Myself People Me Literature

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