Melissa Manchester Quotes
I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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Ch. 2 Relativity
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed.
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Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?
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Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with it. It was amazing! It was a great safe place to just vent.
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I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.
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At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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For young people in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live - perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left care - it is far too easy to become trapped in a chain of misfortune, with little help from the state.
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My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
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In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.
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I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.
