It was about our club, but it's also about the city. This is a great sports town, and we're proud to be working with the city to make this event happen.
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Related So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER It was unfortunate what happened with the Edmonton Ice when they were here. But I think this would b... JARRET STOLL Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Su... MARIE DE FRANCE We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city. DAVE ANDREWS People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how ... DAN GILBERT It's a little bit overwhelming seeing this kind of reaction to my arrival, but I guess I'm prepared ... SIDNEY CROSBY Two daily newspapers, competing editorially in the city of Detroit. That's the bottom line of today'... CRAIG DUBOW I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, ... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON We chose to host this event in Nashville because we were able to secure top-notch facilities in a gr... PHYLLIS SHELTON I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years n... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON The community - fans, media and the corporate sector - all got behind the event last year, and I ant... FRED MACGILLIVRAY I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great cit... MAGIC JOHNSON We're very serious about this, and I think we can win. I think it would be great for our franchise a... DAN CHAPMAN Firefighters are on the front lines - working every day to make our city safe. They are among the mo... DAVID PEPPER This is a great opportunity to expand our reach, and make Atlantic City an easier sell. JEFF VASSER It's not a hard sell. People in this community already know about opera and love it. This is a very ... LAURA SMITH There is no one who cares more about Nevada City or works harder to make the town a success. DAVE CARTER We are also working closely with the (city) police, and we notified the school principals about Mond... ARMANDO NAVA JR I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago ... RICHARD M. DALEY Cleveland's a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They're loyal and ha... STIPE MIOCIC We don't appreciate the signage and we're working with the city to make sure this establishment is a... LAURIE HUGHES At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I&... SAMUEL WEST What is it about this city!? CHAR SCHROEDER This is a working-class city with working-class neighborhoods -- lots of smokers, lots of bars. But ... HENRY TEUNE This is a big win for Atlanta. The AVP Tour will give our city an annual marquee lifestyle sports ev... GARY STOKAN The city isn't going to be the scapegoat for why this program went away. The local option sales tax ... DALE SWANSON I am so honored to have the City recognize us in this exciting partnership. It is especially rewardi... JOHN SHEGERIAN Nothing is going to just stop ... The Lower Woodward Program was really about more than the Super Bo... GEORGE JACKSON I started thinking about what I could build in (Austin) that would make it special. We set out with ... BILL STAPLETON The time is right for an entertaining show about poker that is also truly educational. I am excited ... HOWARD LEDERER This is just politics, ... This is all about the race to City Hall. MARC JOHNSON We're serious about our mission for the kids of this city, ... this is just the beginning. KWAME KILPATRICK The sports hall in Chicago is a great facility, and Joe is an icon in the Italian-American community... DAVID HUNT We're talking about thousands of people who are participating in this thing. Everyone's working over... CHARLIE BROTMAN This is a city where you can go from Bernini to Michelangelo to Julius Caesar to Meier. This is what... WALTER VELTRONI While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA There'll probably be some detractors. ... It probably is a little difficult for people to see it, bu... JOE TRIPODI The landscape of this city would have been miserably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon not... ED RENDELL The landscape of this city would have been measurably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon no... ED RENDELL This is great for you and great for our city. DAVE PARKER I want things to change in The Nameless City. I want the people in the city to finally have some inf... FAITH ERIN HICKS If we were here talking about dangerous dogs smoking, the city would have authority. This is not abo... PATRICK O'NEILL I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON The division between the schools was not snobbery, ... It was all about competitive sports. Ocean Ci... HUDSON BROWN The time is right for an entertaining show about poker that is also truly educational, ... I am... HOWARD LEDERER The bad thing about this flap is that people will point a finger at Salt Lake City and a culture tha... JACK FOLEY That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON We are particularly proud of Outlook, ... Many of our sections are dedicated to informing our citize... FRANK ROBERTS For people who are interested in learning about how to make New York City a more humane community fo... JANE HOFFMAN This is our last year for sure, racing on Jeffers Street. Merchants started complaining to the city ... JOE HINMAN We believe it's a strong league. We're excited about it, but the team was not able to fulfill its ob... BRAHM DUBIN We weren't concerned about what GM was doing. We were concerned with what the consumers were doing. ... DON ROMANO Katrina is the best thing to ever happen to this city. FINIS SHELNUTT It's always cool to be a part of anything that hasn't happened before. This is a great sports town, ... JOE DUMARS One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. I... BAZ LUHRMANN Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in whi... YITZHAK SHAMIR That's the really sad part about it, as small as this town is and things like this happen. BETTY MCGEE Goldman Sachs has called Lower Manhattan its home for 136 years and we are proud to reaffirm our com... GROUP INC The first report was what the city government could do on its own, and now we're working on areas wh... JOE QUINTANA Most people view Manchester as a manufacturing city, still. We have been working over the last 30 ye... CHRIS WILLIAMS It's so great just to get to the Super Bowl and so great for the city. Pittsburgh is just a great ci... MICHEL THERRIEN We have been proud to call Seattle Center home court for four decades. Were the city to proceed with... WALLY WALKER I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city. GARY SPEED These guys understand this city and understand why it's important to do what we're doing today and t... JASON WOLFE Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in... YITZHAK SHAMIR Those governmental services being in Old Town helped give this place its lifeblood. One of the neat ... JAY MACANIFF When Atlantic City first came on, there was this huge panic in Vegas, that we were going to be surpa... ROGER GROS This is about who knows how to manage a big-city budget. FREMAN HENDRIX Hispanic Heritage Month gives us a significant opportunity to celebrate the culture and contribution... ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA We're looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent op... DAVID ATKINSON Royal Oak seems to be a city of animal lovers. It's ingrained in this town. DAN GODEK But my main priority is here [at Manchester City]. I know the England thing is great and everyone li... DARIUS VASSELL This is an amazing honor for us, ... This movie is our love letter to the city of New York. We are t... MARK LEVIN This is one of the last unique things to do in the business of sports, to return the National Footba... CASEY WASSERMAN We are working with the city to determine if there were any problems there and what needs to be corr... MARK TOLBERT Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not li... JOEL EDGERTON No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balan... G. K. CHESTERTON This is the outcome we were working towards. Chicago is a great city and John is taking the team in ... JEFF SCHWARTZ We did this for the first time in the summer of 2003, and we believe it's a good way for some of our... CRAIG PATRICK This is just what we needed. We needed to be home in the friendly confines of our arena, in our city... DAVE DICKERSON In this fiscal crisis, we are always looking for innovative ways to save money. This project is exci... DONNA FRYE Diversity is the lifeblood of our vibrant city. The Conga Room is proud to partner with l.a. live to... JIMMY SMITS I think this resolution will make it crystal clear as to where (city council) stands, ... It's about... CURTIS JENKINS I'll just say that we watched as city bureaucrats jimmied the numbers to make it look like the city ... DAVID MCKINLEY This city has bred some great writers and we want others to be inspired by this competition to share... LORD MAYOR This is the outcome we were working towards. Chicago is a great city and John (Paxson) is taking the... JEFFREY SCHWARTZ They didn't really have a job in mind, but they knew I was knowledgeable about the game and passiona... PAUL MOTT This is a very unfortunate event and an unfortunate day in the history of labor relations in this ci... JUSTICE THEODORE JONES There has been tremendous enthusiasm in the community about this event because people realize this i... MARK OGGEL I'm very concerned about the role of one of our city councilman in this process. It's unprecedented ... CHARLES HOOKS Delhi's response to the event was brilliant. The city came out fantastically to take part and also c... DALEY THOMPSON Delhi's response to the event was brilliant. The city came out fantastically to take part and also c... DALEY THOMPSON Things like this, you get embarrassed. Things like this, when it happens, you get mad. Things like t... RICHARD M. DALEY I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL Horn Lake is a Tree City USA city, and we're proud of our trees. We wanted to hold something that wo... MAYOR NAT BAKER This is probably one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. North Adams is working very hard to impro... WAYNE J. WILKINSON This didn't happen by accident. The city council made this happen, and Judy Clark worked very hard t... DAVE HARROLD Indianapolis has this international reputation of being the best city to host an event like this. BOB SCHULTZ New York City is not going to be cowed by the terrorists, ... Make no mistake about that. We're not ... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
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That sounds nice, and we will do it. But I will say we thoroughly enjoy what we're do right now. ED BRINK I'd say 'focus, focus, focus' so many times they probably got sick of it. But that's how we did thin... ED BRINK It's something that we felt strongly about, and it was natural that we'd do it as partners. ED BRINK I think it's a fight where he knows what he's getting into too, so there's not going to be a big sur... AARON BRINK He's turned me down four times. Now I get to do it to him. Plus, these guys offered me more money. AARON BRINK At first, I had to think about the venue, and where it was going to be at. I know the kid's mom and ... AARON BRINK He knew who I was and that I was a fighter, and he said 'I'd like you train me, will you teach me?' ... AARON BRINK He backed out of the fight. I'm here. I showed up. He didn't want to fight me. AARON BRINK I decided I didn't want to go out like that. I'm fighting to get my career back on track. AARON BRINK I guess when we sit down and reflect on it we'll be happy. ADOLPH BRINK The program's turned around. I'm not an easy coach to play for and the kids have bought into the sys... ADOLPH BRINK We got lazy moving the puck. ADOLPH BRINK I think the first period came a little bit too easy for them. ADOLPH BRINK I'm cautiously optimistic so far. We're a very young team across the board. We're developing with a ... ADOLPH BRINK To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my ... ANDRé BRINK Because of the position I am on the team and the situation we have I'm going to take some criticism ... ALEX BRINK At this level, guys really respect a guy who makes plays and kind of shows his leadership through hi... ALEX BRINK On the field, he kind of means everything. ALEX BRINK Down to earth ALEX BRINK For me to know I can go in and win in this league is a huge confidence booster, ALEX BRINK I've already won a couple games in the Pac-10. It's nice to get the first win and come out and impro... ALEX BRINK When we jump out into a lead, we've got to keep the pedal down and keep going. ALEX BRINK Personally, I felt improved. I felt I was able to stretch the field a little more. There's been kind... ALEX BRINK I'm like anybody else at this level. I want to play. ALEX BRINK We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was. ALEX BRINK We fouled them as much as we could in the fourth quarter. But we failed to convert when they missed ... JEFF BRINK I listen and take it for what it's worth. And a lot of it is worth nothing to me. Some of it, the cr... ALEX BRINK In love, no question is ever preposterous. ANDRé BRINK Knowing I can make that height when I?m not feeling that well is encouraging. I can definitely go hi... ADAM BRINK There are some pretty talented kids out there, but we have three of the best right here. We all push... ADAM BRINK Fifty percent of it is strength and the other 50 percent is mental. Later in the season it becomes e... ADAM BRINK When you see a combination like that, you just have to pick your poison. We wanted to take away thei... JEFF BRINK You would never know that the tail is gone. I don't think even he knows it's gone. MELINDA BRINK My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where mea... ANDRé BRINK In hindsight, I'd like to have thrown deep, but we didn't have the ball a lot and there weren't many... ALEX BRINK It's a very difficult thing to sing and dance at the same time. Show choir is not at all what you th... BRINK NORTON They now have a completely different perspective of what is possible. Now that they have an understa... BRINK NORTON It was an eye-opening experience. This is the first national level competition [for us]. BRINK NORTON He's a playmaker. He understands the flow of the game. He understands when things have to be done. JEFF BRINK He's capable of putting up 20-25 on a given night. He waits his time and waits until it's needed. He... JEFF BRINK That's prepared us for this situation. This is what we drill for. It's nothing new. We just have to ... JEFF BRINK Right now we can either fold our tents or put it behind us and go on. We're a good team, but if we e... JEFF BRINK But we're proving them wrong right now and I'm proud of how hard these kids have worked. It's nice t... JEFF BRINK The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward. CAROL RYRIE BRINK When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to m... ANDRE P. BRINK Riding around on Minnie’s shoulder But CAROL RYRIE BRINK I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and En... ED WESTWICK I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only h... ED OXENBOULD Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts o... ED GREENWOOD I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there a... ED SHEERAN There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old... ED KOCH I've always had really messy hair. ED SHEERAN In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude. ED SHEERAN Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. ED MARKEY Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette... ED BRADLEY One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. ED SMITH Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost ... ED RENDELL Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience. ED TOWNSEND Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead? ED SULLIVAN I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to b... ED STOPPARD 'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to creat... ED STOPPARD In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in... ED STOPPARD I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want. ED STOPPARD The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian... ED STOPPARD I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and ... ED STOPPARD It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of ... ED STOPPARD It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan. ED STOPPARD I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them. ED STOPPARD Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. ED STOPPARD If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent. ED STOPPARD I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. ED STOPPARD I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind... ED STOPPARD The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played ... ED SPELEERS I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can... ED SPELEERS I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possi... ED SPELEERS Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic s... ED SPELEERS I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special. ED SPELEERS I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at... ED SPELEERS My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, a... ED SPELEERS I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t... ED SPELEERS I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoug... ED SPELEERS I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of Englan... ED SPELEERS I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at. ED SKREIN You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive. ED SKREIN However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it. ED SKREIN I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and... ED SKREIN I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get thi... ED SHEERAN Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them. ED SHEERAN It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. ED SHEERAN The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very... ED SHEERAN I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ... ED SHEERAN The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereot... ED SHEERAN I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal thin... ED SHEERAN I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illeg... ED SHEERAN Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially Amer... ED SHEERAN I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point... ED SHEERAN The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of peo... ED SHEERAN I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you... ED SHEERAN I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves ... ED SHEERAN Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you wer... ED SHEERAN Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering un... ED ROYCE The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This i... ED ROYCE The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implement... ED ROYCE Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a cou... ED ROYCE A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that e... ED ROYCE Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be mo... ED ROYCE I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel... ED ROYCE Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and... ED ROYCE The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq. ED ROYCE The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done th... ED ROYCE I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives. ED ROYCE The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all e... ED ROYCE Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playin... ED ROYCE The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T... ED ROYCE The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities ... ED ROYCE Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will... ED ROYCE I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th... ED ROYCE History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can... ED ROYCE What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov... ED ROLLINS I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republi... ED ROLLINS I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec... ED ROLLINS Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare... ED ROLLINS I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would'... ED ROLLINS There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton. ED ROLLINS One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never... ED ROLLINS I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and ev... ED ROLLINS While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our ... ED PASTOR Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better. ED PASTOR I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more r... ED PASTOR Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to s... ED PASTOR While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ED PASTOR Health care should be affordable for everyone. ED PASTOR Make health care a right, not a privilege. ED PASTOR As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important thi... ED PASTOR Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. ED PASTOR Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ED PASTOR What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. ED PARKER With every social media, there's hate and things like that. ED OXENBOULD I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily. ED OXENBOULD I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would... ED OXENBOULD I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible... ED OXENBOULD I love working in America! ED OXENBOULD I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a... ED OXENBOULD I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh,... ED OXENBOULD My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just s... ED OXENBOULD I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls. ED OXENBOULD I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan... ED OXENBOULD Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. ... ED OXENBOULD My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do... ED O'NEILL I channel surf like probably most people. ED O'NEILL I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it. ED O'NEILL I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career. ED O'NEILL I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to... ED O'NEILL Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money. ED O'NEILL I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And tha... ED O'NEILL I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very... ED O'NEILL I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, ... ED O'NEILL I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type ... ED O'NEILL Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there... ED O'NEILL In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve... ED O'NEILL I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some g... ED O'NEILL I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie. ED O'NEILL All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe... ED O'NEILL I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested... ED O'NEILL I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I... ED O'NEILL That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee w... ED O'NEILL When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... ju... ED O'NEILL There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 min... ED O'BRIEN What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at som... ED O'BRIEN So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t... ED O'BRIEN We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the... ED O'BRIEN For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task. ED O'BRIEN At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ... ED O'BRIEN It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali... ED O'BRIEN Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning. ED O'BRIEN The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t... ED O'BRIEN But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w... ED O'BRIEN I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a... ED O'BRIEN I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV. ED O'BRIEN We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. ED O'BRIEN We're not spokespeople, we're musicians. ED O'BRIEN But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's... ED O'BRIEN I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard. ED O'BRIEN What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s... ED O'BRIEN Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward. ED O'BRIEN There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t... ED O'BRIEN Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'... ED O'BRIEN We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it... ED O'BRIEN Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. ED O'BRIEN We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate. ED O'BRIEN It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. ED O'BRIEN All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab... ED MCMAHON The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow... ED MCMAHON Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built. ED MCMAHON Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei... ED MCMAHON You can grow without destroying the things that you love. ED MCMAHON There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t... ED MCMAHON There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo... ED MCMAHON Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be... ED MCMAHON It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really... ED MCMAHON