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Barbara Harbach

"Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some reason, it's taking a lot longer in music than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. It was almost acceptable by the 19th century for female writers to be published, yet it's only in the last couple of decades, since about 1980, that historical female composers have really emerged."

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Barbara Harbach

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“With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.”
“Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.”
“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.”
“I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.”
“Barack Obama is an economic patriot.”

Source : "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell", www.today.com. September 27, 2012.
“When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.”
“Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.”

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