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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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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Love, and do what you like.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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I remember once I went to go see a movie, and in front of me in line there was a little boy who looked so eager to see it, like it was Christmas morning. When he got to the ticket booth it turned out there was only one ticket left; the manager was there and wanted to give it to me instead since I was famous. That's when I knew I'd hit it big.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.
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May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
