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John Barry Quotes

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: british
Birth: November 3, 1933 - January 30, 2011

Topics

Song Surprise Someone You Nice Way

I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing, or for somebody else, it might be soccer or whatever.

Love Music God People Me Writing

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Life Work Parents Me Difficult Very

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Change Great Time Parents Conflict

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

Hope Myself Laugh Seriously Pretty

I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality.

History People Small Story Reality

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

People Opinion Someone You Stop Go

From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill.

Growth Environmental Win Drive Oil

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Creative Me World Out Going Artists

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

Good Mind Image Anything Get Killer

I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.

Live Freedom Day Society Face Know

If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

Jordan Peterson

Worth You Salt Never Analysis Your

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

Plan Realize Need Force Long-Term

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