Barbara Sher Quotes
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.
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[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
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What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
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I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
