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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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 like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
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I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
