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I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.


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DON MARQUIS One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midst...
DON MARQUIS An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church ...
DON MARQUIS Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
DON MARQUIS An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
DON MARQUIS In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
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