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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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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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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I transform when I work, but on a daily basis, I really don't pay that much attention to my looks.
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Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.
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My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
