George Benson Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all - specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community - great schools, public safety, etc.
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
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As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward, and it's all linear.
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There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together.
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When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.
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Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!
