Barry Libert Quotes
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.
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Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
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Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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It's so hard to predict the political environment. I think that business can't sit on the sidelines and just watch. I think we need to be a force for the values that we believe in. We need to partner with government and regulators.
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The future of business is social.
