Gary Barlow Quotes
I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
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My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.
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I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.
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I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!
