Barry Gibb Quotes
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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People always want to doubt you.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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Act because you love to act.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
