Barbara Cook Quotes

#1. I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

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#2. 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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#3. The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

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#7. I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

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#8. 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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#9. I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

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