"Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Charlie Day

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“So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.”
“Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.”
“In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.”
“I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2009.
“I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.”

Source : "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self, Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.
“Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.”
“People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bullâ€™s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.”
“I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.”

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