#herself

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#become #billie #billie holiday #desire #first

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concern #difficulties #each #every #getting

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#endeavor #eventually #faithful #girl #goal

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#child #did #fully #growing #growing up

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#am #being #career #found #her

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl. ↗

— H. E. Bates

#calls #every #female #fifty #girl

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#because #child #childhood #corner #could

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#being #came #capable #could #critics

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#culture #cultures #destroy #force #fragile

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter! ↗

— George Washington Cable

#craft #cross #curious #daughter #herself