Mel Torme Quotes

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

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• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Sorry

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Gay

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Baby

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Career
  • Independent
  • Blessed

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• My whole career - I have been really lucky.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Career
  • Really
  • Lucky

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Career
  • Hard
  • Stuff

• I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Career
  • Attention

• You can have Whatever You LikeStacks on deck, patron on icecan pop bottles all nightAnd baby you can have Whatever You LikeSaid you can have Whatever You Like, yeahh

  

  T.I.
  • Baby

• The trick is for Divas to find what works for them. I've done some ridiculous stuff in my career, but there's still nothing that's gotten a reaction as big as me skipping around the ring.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Done
  • Career

• Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.

  

  Sherri Shepherd
  • Baby
  • Twin
  • Sister

• My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

  

  Mel Torme
  • Career
  • Baby