Derek Bailey Quotes
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I'm always confident when I sign up for a project that it's going to be good. That's why I sign up for it.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
