Barbara Cook Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming Can touch life's height to a finer fire: Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason, One lightning over the chasm runs - That to turn from love is the world's one treason That darkens all the suns.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
