Barry Mann Quotes

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

Barry Mann

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• People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Awesome
  • Fantastic

• San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • City
  • Space
  • Sustainable

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Tough

• Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Dance

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Ever

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Treat

• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Covered

• The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Passion

• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Happy
  • Small

• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Past
  • Know
  • Survive

• I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Atmosphere
  • Brains

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
  • Find
  • Look

• Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Music
  • Year
  • Broadway

• Fashion for a long time was very elitist and difficult to get access to. The access I can now provide to my readers live from fashion shows with my iPhone was never, ever possible before.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

  

  Chevy Chase

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Know