Barbara Cook Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“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 sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.”
-- Barbara CookSource : "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. August 9, 2017.
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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.”
-- Barbara CookSource : "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. August 9, 2017.
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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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“I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.”
-- Barbara CookSource : "60 Minutes" with Mike Wallace, www.cbsnews.com. 2001.
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“Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.”
-- Barbara CookSource : "60 Minutes" with Mike Wallace and Jay Kernis, www.cbsnews.com. August 09, 2017.
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“The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.”
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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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“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.”
-- Barbara Cook
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