Michael Bacon Quotes
I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and what the lacquer smelled like. Instruments have just been something very special to me.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters - you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
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Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.
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Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
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The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
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One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Jorge Luis Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
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I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and what the lacquer smelled like. Instruments have just been something very special to me.
