Alan Barth Quotes
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I am not honest.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.
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I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
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We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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News is only the first rough draft of history.
