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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 Carole (King) always said there was a small window of opportunity and we happened to come along at t...
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

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
HEINRICH MANN

More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and...
HORACE MANN

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
HORACE MANN

To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN

The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN

We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN

I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN

Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN

I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN

I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN

You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN

The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN

Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN

I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much ca...
HORACE MANN

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
GABRIEL MANN

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morr...
GABRIEL MANN

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm s...
GABRIEL MANN

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red wi...
GABRIEL MANN

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters...
GABRIEL MANN

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone say...
GABRIEL MANN

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
GABRIEL MANN

Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and littl...
GABRIEL MANN

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great somet...
GABRIEL MANN

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobo...
GABRIEL MANN

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright childre...
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

Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
GABRIEL MANN

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details an...
AIMEE MANN

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...
HORACE MANN

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
HORACE MANN

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
HORACE MANN

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...
HORACE MANN

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi...
HORACE MANN

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
HORACE MANN

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by i...
HORACE MANN

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
HORACE MANN

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No rewa...
HORACE MANN

Time has no division to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to anno...
THOMAS MANN

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, lik...
THOMAS MANN

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so f...
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...
HERBIE MANN

The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demi...
THOMAS MANN I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
HORACE MANN It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
HORACE MANN Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds...
HORACE MANN Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
HORACE MANN A house without books is like a room without windows.
HORACE MANN Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
HORACE MANN There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal...
THOMAS MANN Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the forc...
HORACE MANN Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
THOMAS MANN Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities o...
HORACE MANN Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
HORACE MANN An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech ...
THOMAS MANN Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANN Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANN We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever ...
THOMAS MANN We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
HORACE MANN It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent...
THOMAS MANN If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
HORACE MANN Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
HORACE MANN Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.
HORACE MANN So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repuls...
HORACE MANN Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
THOMAS MANN Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds ...
HORACE MANN When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs ...
HORACE MANN Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many mor...
HORACE MANN It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
HORACE MANN You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simpl...
THOMAS MANN Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
THOMAS MANN The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling,...
THOMAS MANN Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borro...
HORACE MANN Sports should always be fun.
CHARLES MANN I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount ...
THOMAS MANN Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions...
HORACE MANN Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.
HORACE MANN A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering...
HORACE MANN Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
HORACE MANN What is uttered is finished and done with.
THOMAS MANN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, ...
THOMAS MANN A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m...
THOMAS MANN Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
SALLY MANN Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
THOMAS MANN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...
THOMAS MANN There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced ...
AIMEE MANN Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversitie...
HORACE MANN For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endura...
THOMAS MANN The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
SALLY MANN Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...
HORACE MANN Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
LESLIE MANN Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
HORACE MANN Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...
HORACE MANN For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to......
GABRIEL MANN Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamon...
HORACE MANN

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