Manika Quotes
It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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Beloved, I sought you here and there, asked for news of you from all I met; then saw you through myself and found we were identical. Now I blush to think I ever searched for signs of you.
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
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I'm not here to hurt anyone or harm anyone.
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I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation.
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I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.
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It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.
