Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I play as I feel.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
