Barry Manilow Quotes
My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Once I loved, and she I loved was darkened.Again I loved, and love itself was darkened.Vainly we follow the circle of shadowy days.The screen at last grows dark, the flutes are silent.The doors of night are closed. We go our ways.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.
