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The person who's made for you is gonna love the good, bad, and ugly parts of you.


Frida R.

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But when we hunt, we're vicious.
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FRIDA KAHLO I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO Painting completed my life.
FRIDA KAHLO I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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FRIDA KAHLO Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
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FRIDA KAHLO I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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FRIDA KAHLO They are a bunch of coocoo lunatic sons of bitches surrealists.
FRIDA KAHLO Espero que la salida sea alegre y espero no volver nunca más.
FRIDA KAHLO Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and...
FRIDA KAHLO I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO I want to be inside your darkest everything
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FRIDA KAHLO My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a ...
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FRIDA GIANNINI I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
FRIDA KAHLO I have worked very hard, slept very little, and now we shall see.
FRIDA GIANNINI At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.
FRIDA KAHLO I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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FRIDA KAHLO Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
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One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY