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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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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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.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
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• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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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.

  

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

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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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.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Think
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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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Together
  • Best

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

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • 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.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
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• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• 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.

  

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

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
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  • Counsel

• It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Attention
  • Difficult
  • More

• 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.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Poetry
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  • Japanese

• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
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  • Feeling

• ...and on MSNBC all over the world. Now, uhh, because it's available all over the world, doesn't mean, by the way, that anybody's watchin' it. Am I right Charles?'

  

  Don Imus
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• Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Mathematics

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
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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