Barry Gibb Quotes
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I have long been a supporter of The Princes Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch Amex Be Inspired and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.
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I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
