Barbara Cook Quotes

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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.
• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
• The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.
• Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
• 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,…
• I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
• The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
• 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...…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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