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WAYNE GRAHAM If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping a... DAVE ROWNTREE On this last tour we set it up like a play: We did act one and act two with an intermission and cost... PETE WENTZ We were reasonably happy with the way we started the tour against Scotland and haven't seen the need... EDDIE JONES I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, ... ERIC CARR So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t... ED O'BRIEN When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're... ALEX VAN HALEN (Almost) everybody is of age, ... When the Scream Tour started we were 14 or 15. Bow (Wow) was, like... OMARION We do not know this tour operator. We've never dealt with this tour operator before. DAN HANRAHAN The Tour de France is not the only bike race in the world, but it is the biggest, so the possibility... LANCE ARMSTRONG He (Rowland) is really a favorite in this community. He is performing straight off a tour in Spain s... EILEEN WILSON I have a sweet tooth problem. On tour, in catering, the dessert was always so good. When we started ... KEVIN MCHALE I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, ... ERIC CARR Every time guys come from this tour and have success at the next level it serves as inspiration. Loo... DARREN GRIFF We'd run up to people at Warped Tour and throw headphones on people and say, 'Hey, do you like our C... JOSH WILLS Over the last few years, we've worked to identify the character and spirit of our brand, and we beli... JANE BLALOCK The Legends Tour offers a place where I can continue to compete with some of the greatest names in w... NANCY LOPEZ I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expec... PATTIE BOYD I didn't see it coming, ... But Comedy Central wanted to do it and will air all 13 shows that we did... DREW CAREY We finished the season exactly the way we started it. The kids really wanted this, and it showed in ... TIM MORRIS I could think of three or four fishermen who would do really well in the pro tour. Some of these peo... JOSH MABEE We showed signs in the beginning of the game, but then we panicked at times. We didnt execute things... ALEX HERNANDEZ We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on s... COLIN MELOY The incredible success of the tour and the enthusiastic response to the new CD [A Beautiful Lie] has... JARED LETO After I did the solo acoustic tour last year, I felt like I was in a position to start working with ... BOB MOULD If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a... KERRY KING At some point, they must do a 'Borgen' tour in Copenhagen. Like the 'Sex and the City... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han... JEFF DUNHAM The whole squad will share my sense of frustration. We must look forward to one big effort and try t... LAWRENCE DALLAGLIO We'd actually met him once when he was at Cambridge. Then Terry Gilliam came along and started doing... TERRY JONES We were down but we weren't out. Offensively we really picked it up and showed what we could do. Loo... FRANCIS REISHUS We just wanted to make the school look better, ... When we first got together, we had no idea what w... RACHEL WEST I'm of course not so happy that I didn't ride in the Tour de France and that was my first time that ... ERIK ZABEL I lost to her the last two times we played, and lost easily, so I really wanted to do something this... MARIA KIRILENKO I knew we could do it. People might not believe us when we say we knew we could do it when the seaso... KAMMRON TAYLOR We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada. BILLY SHERWOOD We really created some chances, some pretty chances too, with drop passes, and we did what we wanted... DAVE PALMIERI We've just had early conversations [with the tour] about the post-'06 schedule. Any time you spend b... LARRY PECK I really started hearing a sound for the band for the first time instead of just hearing a sound for... JASON MOLINA There were subtle pressures, and we didn't really realize where they were coming from, and we had ju... NIKOLAI FRAITURE Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN There are a lot of people that will look this winter for summer 2007. So they can tour the camps dur... LUCY NORVELL We had traces of our music that could be liked by the punk scene or the hardcore scene, ... But that... CLAUDIO SANCHEZ We just overworked. That was what happened to us in our last tour. FERGAL LAWLER I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it... CHARLIE WORSHAM On the last tour, I remember being in London and listening to their last album, ... I enjoyed it ver... JANET JACKSON We love Vermont and we love the support its communities have given us. We wanted to design a tour th... GRACE POTTER I really wanted to come out in the second half and show that we had more than we had showed in the f... CHRIS LARSON We have two new stadiums, we have solid sponsors in Rogers, the National Bank and American Express, ... STACEY ALLASTER The last record was what I would sound like if I played in a rock band - and I don?t. So I wanted to... GLEN PHILLIPS We offered tours of our windows in both the sanctuary and the chapel during the tour. It gave touris... LEE WEEMS [In the article, which appears in the November 2005 issue of the magazine, Bush confirms that the or... JOHN BUSH The band deserves to be recorded. And we also recorded a live CD on the tour. Some day that will com... BELA FLECK We all believe there's more to come from the Scotland team and this season should be a start that we... JASON WHITE We've followed the same pattern that Visit Florida showed, with regards to last fall. We were down i... DANIELLE COURTENAY We (West Indies) are due to visit England for Tests and One-Day matches immediately after the World ... ROGER BRATHWAITE The overall thing is we wanted to bring acts that appeal to a college crowd. Dave Attell just got of... LAURA GARRISON Their street signs keep getting nicked. And when we did the live tour, when we did get to Wales, it ... MATT LUCAS We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby ... DAVE LOMBARDO If they don't lift the fine I will quit the tour. It makes no sense. I want nothing to do with these... BODE MILLER After we lost to Taft (Tuesday) we talked about winning at least two of the last three game. We were... MARCUS KNOTT Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on warped tour i got this really good tan and I was like, bumme... GERARD WAY We clearly separated ourselves from everyone else in the fall. We didn't want to be complacent with ... CHRIS WILSON This tour will be not unlike the last production in that the lowest priced tickets will be on the fl... PAUL MCGUINNESS It could be the last tour for me. We may not be back until 2009 or 2010. How long my career will las... MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN I was on the big tour last year and the Nationwide Tour this year. But in my head, I think I'm on my... BOB HEINTZ There are some great players on the Asian Tour and I am eager to get started. IAIN STEEL The van tours only go to four bridges because it is impossible to get people to all 16 bridges in on... BETTY MORRISON The match started before we went on air. And we wanted to show it in its entirety when more people c... DAVE NAGLE We wanted a turnover on that one. This football team has come together a lot in that regard. We star... DAN HINDS From Chris' point of view, people would come here and we'd give them a great (factory) tour ... but ... DICK BOAK It was our last game here and we can't ever come back and play a game in Mackey, so we wanted to do ... AYA TRAORE That we have the organization to do it. That's what this tour is about: proving there is no front-ru... ALBERTO MARTINEZ Many of these places that we visit on this trip are hallowed ground; they are sacred spots. I never ... JEFF STEINBERG Definitely, to me it is anyway, ... As a kid you always dreamed of playing on the PGA Tour and dream... CARL PETTERSSON We talked about it during the week and right before the game. We stressed that we wanted to win this... CAROLYN WRIGHT We're fortunate to have so much depth. We wanted to rest some of the varsity kids and let the JV gir... JACQUE BARTOW We have enjoyed every minute of the tour so far - when you are in this part of the world you have to... IAN BELL I don't hate it as much today (Thursday) as I did yesterday (when the pro-am was played in strong wi... PAUL AZINGER We had this urge to come out here and take it to L.A.. There were personal things and we needed poin... KYLE MARTINO I thought we could take something from last week's game. That gave us some experience in that situat... KATE BAKER And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour. WANDA JACKSON I think we came out with more confidence and excitement in the second game. It's our court and our g... LAUREN HOFFMAN My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto t... JEFF DUNHAM When we bring it out, some people don't believe that this could be made on Guam, ... That was the lo... CARLOS HERRERA I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and i... TOM FELTON I don't think leading Sri Lanka is that much of a pressure. We've got some really talented youngster... MAHELA JAYAWARDENE I like how many countries we have films from. Just take a look at the listing. The films really do c... MARK POINDEXTER I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are ... HAYLEY WILLIAMS In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin... RON PERLMAN Maybe I could come out to guide people. I'd need a little uniform -- tell them I want a Washington N... LARRY KING We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did ou... STEVE BROWN
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