Barry Mann Quotes
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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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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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
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I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
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Only God knows the beginning and the end.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
