Barry Larkin Quotes
I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch
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So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
