Eleanora Fagan (Billie Holiday) Quotes

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love.'

Eleanora Fagan

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• I don't care if I never see Texas again.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Never
  • Care
  • Texas

• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
  • Money
  • America
  • Guy

• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Fun
  • Hanging
  • Bell

• There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Believe
  • Doing
  • Hunger

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Control

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Control

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Write
  • Novels
  • Ever

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Great
  • Same
  • Musicians

• I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Team
  • Reading

• When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Cards

• We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Band
  • Better

• Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Grow

• I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a spontaneous conversation in Hindi. I'm a Bollywood actress, and I can certainly speak my dialogue in Hindi.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • May
  • Anchor

• I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Done
  • Knowledge

• Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Books
  • Read
  • Censorship

• Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actually true- I do have to be in control all the time. But only because I am in charge, of course.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love.'

  

  Eleanora Fagan