Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.
