Bill Orcutt Quotes
I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
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I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
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It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.
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I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.
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Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out of them. I've taken something from probably every average to above-average pitcher I've ever played with - what they do. You see what they do and how you can put that into your game.
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To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.
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There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You
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A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.
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The centre of Australia is a land almost without dew, therefore comfortable, and in spite of it’s dry bulldust, clean to those who know how to keep clean in it.
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Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.
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It's a boost to my spirits to be involved that way. Never do I feel it's a chore to do.
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When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.
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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
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I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.
