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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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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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
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In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.
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With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.
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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.
