John Baizley (John Dyer Baizley) Quotes
I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.
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I tend toward an expansive sentence that has a cold surface and, visible underneath it, a magma of unbearable heat. I want readers to know from the first lines what they will have to deal with.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Usually, if I hear songs, I record it on a Voice Memo first. I have to perfect it. I'm a big fan of delivery, and I want to make sure you're saying it right. I'm like, 'This has to be perfect when I do this.'
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If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.
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I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.
