Frankie Ballard Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.
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I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.
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Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
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Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student.
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Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
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I'm the world's biggest Bob Seger fan. He's like my Elvis.
