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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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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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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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
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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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The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do amazing things, and maybe even make permanent changes in the brain's mysterious workings. With a simple song and four chords, you might be able to do something useful, even life-changing. With all the songs you know, you might be a virtual, veritable medicine chest for the right person.
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I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
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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.