Barbara Cook Quotes
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.
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The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
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The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.
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If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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