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.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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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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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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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
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There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.
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I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.
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Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons
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It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!
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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.
