Gary Wright Quotes
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
