Barbara Cook Quotes
I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I don't like feeling stuck, like I'm not going anywhere.
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It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.
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Fire people who are not workaholics.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
