Renting Quotes

"Yeah, it sounds like such a bohemian thing to do, doesn`t it? But as badly as Alabama wanted that song ("Walkin` the Country"), I thought we needed the song. I didn`t have a deal at that point, but I thought that would be one of the key songs for us. It was a perfect marriage of lyric and melody and groove that summed up what we were about. I was renting a really old house, for $400 a month, over in Berry Hill. But the money`s no good if you haven`t got a career. I can`t buy a career, and I believed in that song as a way to get my thing out there. Even if it only ended up on CMT, which is what happened, that`s good enough. I do care about money, but I`ve never done anything for the money. . . . My first thought is credibility: doing what you do and not getting swayed by whatever everyone else tells you."

"And it was great making movies in college because if you made the right movie you`d get this cigar box full of $5 and $1 bills, you`d have like 500 bucks after a weekend. And it was like oh my god, we`re rich! We`ve got to make another picture. But if the movie bombed, you spent a lot of money on the movie, on the ads at the State news, renting the theater, lugging these heavy speakers, the projector bulbs, (and) it was a washout, you realize this movie is not making money. I`m broke. I`ve got to make the movie that they want to see. So it was a great learning experience."

I`m based in London now. I`m renting an apartment, making my own little home. It`s great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you`re communicating what you think you`re communicating. It`s so easy as a young writer to think you`re been very clear when in fact you haven`t.

What happens with condominiums is people end up buying them as investments and renting them as apartments.

If there`s a real demand for it, then theoretically we`ll be able to travel in a certain degree of comfort. We`re not going to rent a jet or anything like that, but it will be somewhere between renting a jet and all piling into a van with our gear and a crew guy and sleeping in the McDonald`s parking lot (laughs). Ralph is technically still our agent. As far as I know, the initial inquiries have already been made, so the idea of a Pursuit Of Happiness tour is floating around amongst club owners.

Managing them requires changes in management practices. There are more costs in everything you do, more labor and expense used to control mites. It makes everything more expensive. There is higher attrition. There is a higher rate of losses, adding more stress to the life of a bee. When bees die off for any reason it`s an expense, whether they are used for making a honey or for renting hives to farmers.