Barry Gibb Quotes
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.
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When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.
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My dad went to law school at night while working full-time. He has an unparalleled work ethic and has passed down to me his passion for playing and watching sports. I love him dearly.
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I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.
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All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
