Barry White Quotes
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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I never understood why movies don't have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with Rated R. I feel like music, you gotta - you put the sticker on it, you make the clean version, then you're explaining yourself, and then you have to do charities to offset what you just said. No one else has to do this!
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Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
