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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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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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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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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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 don't believe in blanket statements on race.
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I thought I would turn the corner when I didn't play. It wasn't feeling that bad when I'd walk up stairs, so I thought it was getting better. Once I took one step out of the batter's box trying for a double, I couldn't do it. I don't have time to be waiting.
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Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
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I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
