Bobby Hackett Quotes
Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride.
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When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.
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The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
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Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
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I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
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Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride.
