Gary Blair Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
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I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.
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I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.
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From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
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The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is the only plan I know of which is equally fair to the employers and every class of employee. Someday, I hope, all labor troubles will be solved by such a system.
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My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
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Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.
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Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.
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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
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Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams
