Barry Farber Quotes
"It is never a question of what can or cannot be done, but only an awareness of personal strengths and what needs to be done."
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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I play well with everybody.
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
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Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
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"It is never a question of what can or cannot be done, but only an awareness of personal strengths and what needs to be done."
