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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.


Harry Connick, Jr.


#always #back #called #ever #frank

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.


Robert Cormier


#apt #beautiful #better #brain #exact

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.


E. M. Forster


#always #bad #bad press #being #boring

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.


David Hackworth


#cancer #cell #deadly #destroyed #diseased

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.


Billy Joel


#find #irs #least #legitimate #musicians

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.


Gene Tierney


#found #good #helpful #i #movie

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.


Garrison Keillor


#average #boy #bus #bus driver #discouragement

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.


Michael Korda


#best #deeper #enough #failure #find

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.


Virginia Woolf


#believed #could #curious #handling #how

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.


Markus Wolf


#away #case #cliche #done #exerted