Brendan Bayliss Quotes
We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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I'm good at keeping secrets.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.
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Groupon has some interesting assets.
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.
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A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
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Lyrics are what I tend to tear hair out over and they're where I tend to feel weak musically, if I'm being very honest. It is not something I feel like I know anything about; I would not consider myself a writer. I just want to sing, I just want to sing a melody, I just want to feel a melody, and be part of the song, and everything else is not so important.
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I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
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We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.
