John Bacon Quotes
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
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I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
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Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
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I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
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I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
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If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.
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Animals are completely grounded in their root chakra.
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Ambition never comes to an end.
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I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
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Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
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Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.
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I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.
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I've never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I've done.
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I don't want to repeat myself.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.
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Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.
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No one has ever committed as much as we have to the process.
