#so

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something. ↗

— Barry Mann

#good #life #out #something #team

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. ↗

— Barry Mann

#competitive #how #into #nature #negative

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. ↗

— Barry Mann

#catalog #go #great #i #looked

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers. ↗

— Barry Mann

#develop #other #possible #producers #record

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creating #cynthia #generally #i #know

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#angry #day #forget #goes #great

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs. ↗

— Barry Mann

#breathed #lived #pop #pop songs #songs

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?' ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#arrived #big #boom #boy #cast

Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more! ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#actually #affect #awkward #bit #boy

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. ↗

— Heinrich Mann

#bourbon #first #happiness #human #human happiness