"I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written."

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Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

Rita Coolidge

#Thinking Quotes #Singers Quotes #Cabaret Quotes

“The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.”
“The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?”
“. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”

Source : John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks
“Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.”
“Life is like a sewer what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.”
“A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley
“Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.”

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