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 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

• 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

• A lot of the offers I get are for these innocent 16-year-olds, and I turn down a lot of stuff because it's the same-old same-old. The whole point of wanting to act is trying to change it up, and I want to experience everything.

  

  Jillian Murray
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Revolution

• You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Team
  • Play
  • Sports

• People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Think
  • Nonfiction
  • Respectability

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

  

  Eleanora Fagan