Anita O'Day quotes

“Just get up there and let it rip!”
-- Anita O'Day

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“When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.”
-- Anita O'Day

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“So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.”
-- Anita O'Day

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“Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.”
-- Anita O'Day

Source : "Pavarotti : My World". Book by Luciano Pavarotti, 1995.

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“I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'”
-- Anita O'Day

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“The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.”

“Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she didn't want him to stop. Her back arched, her body shattered, she howled.”

Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.263, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.”

“Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.”

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press

“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”

“If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.”

“When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.”

“Life has no remote get up and change it yourself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.”