Clive Barnes Quotes

With few exceptions ... most jukebox musicals need a story line. But 'Ring of Fire' is basically just a Cash-and-carry anthology of an iconic singer.

Clive Barnes

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• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

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• What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.

  

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• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

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• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

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• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

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• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

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• When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

  

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• A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

  

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• Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.

  

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• If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

  

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• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

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• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

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• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

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• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

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• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

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• As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

  

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• On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.

  

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• I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

  

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• We think it is part of history, this embargo, but we have to find a manner and the moment in which it can be done without any difficulty, any problem.

  

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• If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

  

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• With few exceptions ... most jukebox musicals need a story line. But 'Ring of Fire' is basically just a Cash-and-carry anthology of an iconic singer.

  

  Clive Barnes
  • Fire
  • Story
  • Singer