Barry Mann Quotes
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Moderation is the secret of survival.
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I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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So many state Republican governors and legislators are defunding Planned Parenthood and shutting down clinics that not only provide a safe abortion but HIV testing, cancer screenings, and so much else that women have every right to access, which is harder if you are unemployed or you are a low-income woman that's part of the real service that Planned Parenthood provides.
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I grew up in Lucknow, which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
