Barry Manilow Quotes
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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Love, and do what you like.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
