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Barry Mann

"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."

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"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."

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"And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being."

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"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

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"I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion."

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"The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife."

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"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."

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"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

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"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."

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"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

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"You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child."

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"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."

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"We became the songs we wrote."
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"I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs."
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"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."
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"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."
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"We've written something like 900 songs in all."
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"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."
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"I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows."
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"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."
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"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."
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"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."
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