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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.


Murray Gell-Mann

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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 Being in her home state, she feels like she has something to prove.
ALI MANN In the course of the game, those shots can be killers.
ALI MANN The first half I thought we did some pretty good things trying to keep their main players under cont...
ALI MANN Last year was more of an eye-opening experience. We were wide-eyed walking around Seattle. Now we kn...
ALI MANN