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Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

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Frank Ocean
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: October 28
Blogger
Composer
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Rapper
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Singer-Songwriter
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Long Beach
California
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Smile

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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
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It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.
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I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
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I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
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Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
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Just remember someone loves everything you hate about yourself.
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People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.
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Of course awards matter.
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Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
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Go for someone who is proud to have you.
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We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.
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It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.
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As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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