Billy Lawrence Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.
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'Wanna Be That Song' has everything I want to say about love and about what I'm trying to be. I wanna be that part of your life, that song that means so much to you, the one that takes you back to that special place... the song that makes you laugh, the song that makes you cry when you need to cry, that makes you dance when you need to dance.
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Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.
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Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
