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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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
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For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.
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Anxiety is a useful tool: it forces us to make plans. But when too much anxiety freezes us into indecision, it needs checking.
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The future of business is social.
