Barry Manilow Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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Hear the other side.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.
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I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.
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There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
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It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
