Barry McGuire Quotes
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
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You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
