John Baizley (John Dyer Baizley) Quotes
It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
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There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
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I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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I was taunted because I was different.
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I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.
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The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
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I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
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Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
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It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.
