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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Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.
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Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist.
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I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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If you want a friend, buy a dog.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
