David Bazan Quotes
I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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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 am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.
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I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
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I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.
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If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.
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Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses.
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I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.
