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

• The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Problem

• 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 feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• 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

• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • English
  • Describe
  • Dumb People

• You thought I was that type: That you could forget me, And that I'd plead and weep And throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare...

  

  Anna Akhmatova

• I have grown up in Delhi in a way, and I keep coming here often. But, and I am sorry to say, I'll always be nervous when in Delhi. In my college days, I have had my bum pinched around so many times. So yes, in Mumbai, I can just walk around and do what I want to do, but in Delhi I'll always be scared.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Up
  • College
  • Sorry

• Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

  

  Billy Joel
  • True
  • Dream
  • Vienna

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

  

  Eleanora Fagan