Barry Mann
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ADAM DEJOODE HOOMAN MAJD I jumped right in there because I ain't used to seeing that. So I jumped in there with them. MARCO KILLINGSWORTH We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Ce... JENNIFER CONNELLY Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN AMY WINEHOUSE What killed my brother was the bacteria that were found in the waters right there in that harbor. Re... LEONARD JOHNSON WINNIE THE POOH It gives kids more opportunity to come in and compete. It's a window of opportunity. We've got good ... GARY ANDERSEN DARREN ARONOFSKY This expansion can give us a whole wave of growth. We see a lot of opportunity in the rural sector a... DEREK WILLIAMS BILL MUMY TERRY PRATCHETT In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a K... BORIS SPASSKY In ?66 when we were playing that music, people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated ... 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ALICIA KEYS DEYTH BANGER GLORIA ESTEFAN RICHARD CARLSON Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it. CARL FORTI EDWARD R. MURROW It's a matter of the moment right now. There is an opportunity along Colfax. JOYCE MESKIS It was sloppy and we held onto it a little better than they did. There was some hard hitting on both... BILL EVANS I've always been into documentary photography and spot news is one of my favorites. After 11 years i... MICHAEL KIRBY And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's hous... BIBLE We've said all along that our goal was to get a more national footprint for the league. But we've al... KENT PARTRIDGE MERRY CLAYTON The thing that jumped out at me most all weekend was how hard Northeastern played against us, what a... JACK PARKER SCOTTY BOWMAN I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business. JEFF HEALEY It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA We're a small business, and we just feel for these people. If this happened to us, we would have no ... BRENDA EGENLAUF We believe in disco funk. We're fully into it. We felt we should produce and write music along that ... DERRICK MCKENZIE Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll a... BOBBY HATFIELD I was pretty much stunned by the numbers like everyone else. I could not believe that with just a sm... BERNIE BURKHOLDER NIGEL MANSELL We were always positive. There were some negative people, but they were wrong in the end. I always s... ANTONIO MUNOZ We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ... KAREN CARPENTER Two guys came in and said 'Come here miss!' They took me out a little window. 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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input. BARRY MANN You have to be very brave in that first writing session. BARRY MANN I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s... BARRY MANN We've written something like 900 songs in all. BARRY MANN I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. BARRY MANN I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. BARRY MANN The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki... BARRY MANN I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. BARRY MANN Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themsel... BARRY MANN I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direc... BARRY MANN A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ... BARRY MANN You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and... BARRY MANN I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear... BARRY MANN If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist. BARRY MANN If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something. BARRY MANN We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs. BARRY MANN I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. BARRY MANN One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record pr... BARRY MANN I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing ... BARRY MANN It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative cro... BARRY MANN Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. BARRY MANN If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber toda... BARRY MANN We became the songs we wrote. BARRY MANN There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs ... BARRY MANN It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. BARRY MANN You're going to have more rejection than acceptance. BARRY MANN The biggest problem is getting to work. BARRY MANN Once I get into it, then I'm into it. BARRY MANN You can get stale writing with each other for a while. BARRY MANN I was very fortunate, though, to have a writing partner that truly is brilliant with words and at th... BARRY MANN I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being ... BARRY MANN We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a... BARRY MANN It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input. BARRY MANN And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same ... BARRY MANN You're fools to try to be songwriters! BARRY MANN She just wants to jump in, and I procrastinate for awhile until I really get into it. BARRY MANN We've written something like 900 songs in all. BARRY MANN Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves. BARRY MANN A good lyric sings to me. And another lyricist might sing another lyrical song to me. BARRY MANN Right now we're writing a Broadway show. BARRY MANN It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to har... BARRY MANN Writing with other people is also beneficial, not only on the creative aspect, but also that they ha... BARRY MANN One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record produc... BARRY MANN A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but ... BARRY MANN We wrote for Broadway. BARRY MANN You've got to really be able to accept the rejection. BARRY MANN I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. BARRY MANN But at the same time, sometimes it is very good to write with other people because you do have that ... BARRY MANN I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to ... BARRY MANN I see myself as an artist, as a professional, as a craftsman and as an all around narcissistic, need... BARRY MANN When the British invasion happened, I became aware that records were more guitar driven and I had al... BARRY MANN There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alco... BARRY MANN This is the first time in a long time that we have had so many applicants here, ... This is a great ... BARRY MANN I'm very nervous that this whole affair will hurt our business financially. BARRY MANN If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist. BARRY MANN I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s... BARRY MANN You're going to have more rejection than acceptance. BARRY MANN It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. BARRY MANN The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking t... BARRY MANN You've got to really be able to accept the rejection. BARRY MANN Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the ... SALLY MANN The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while re... SALLY MANN I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi... SALLY MANN Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo... SALLY MANN I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead. SALLY MANN I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t... SALLY MANN I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination. SALLY MANN I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. SALLY MANN At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ... SALLY MANN It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and... SALLY MANN If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one. SALLY MANN I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an... SALLY MANN Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. SALLY MANN I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe... SALLY MANN To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. SALLY MANN Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable. SALLY MANN Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ... SALLY MANN I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f... SALLY MANN I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about... SALLY MANN You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi... SALLY MANN When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit... SALLY MANN I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity... SALLY MANN When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a... SALLY MANN Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst... SALLY MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o... MANFRED MANN The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a ... MANFRED MANN I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the coun... MANFRED MANN THOMAS MANN The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. HEINRICH MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen... LESLIE MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN THOMAS MANN I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue s... SALLY MANN THOMAS MANN GABRIEL MANN AIMEE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's re... HERBIE MANN For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I h... 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I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
[He said a small] window of opportunity ... believe our way of fighting terror won. 
For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying... 
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Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... 
. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry Kin... 
We knew there would be a certain amount of eye-rolling going on. It was inevitable. But the fact was... 
As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I ... 
Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new... 
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was g... 
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low... 
From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like... 
The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?” he said.
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or... 
I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very ... 
And they always find in archeology “a series of small walls.” Every time, a series of small wall... 
I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his... 
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through th... 
I think Norah Jones is a perfect example. Here's somebody who was playing the music she wanted to pl... 
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ... 
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... 
My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... 
I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&... 
When I was in a record store with Sean Avery helping him look for CDs, I pulled out 'Tapestry.' He w... 
The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has n... 
The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global sca... 
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. 
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. 
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. 
More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and... 
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. 
The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ... 
We recorded the band pretty much live. 
I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,... 
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much ca... 
I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it. 
I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morr... 
But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone say... 
Sports should always be fun. 