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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.

Frank Ocean

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Frank Ocean
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: October 28
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It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.
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If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
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I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
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I don't know anything and neither do you.
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As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
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With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
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I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.
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As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
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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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I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.
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