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 always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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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 think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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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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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
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I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.
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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.
