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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Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
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I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.
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We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
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I don't think anybody has a choice. Everybody has to kind of interact with all the craziness right now. I don't like to engage - a lot of people made a point of doing the social media thing, and I think that social media is complete trash, so I treat it like that. I like Instagram. I like the funny photos. Other than that, it's not for me.
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You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.
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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.
