John Baizley (John Dyer Baizley) Quotes
If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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We want you to pay attention.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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I just say whatever I want to whoever I want whenever I want wherever I want however I want.
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Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
