Mel Torme Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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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.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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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.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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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.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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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.
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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.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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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.
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer.
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Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.
