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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.

Barbara Cook

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.
BARBARA COOK

Doe Thinking Years
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.
BARBARA COOK

Being Courage Inspirational Yourself
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.
BARBARA COOK

New Symphony Year Years
I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
BARBARA COOK

Look Photograph Remember
What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things – good and bad – so that if you’re able to do that, then there’s a kind of resonance that happens.
BARBARA COOK

Emotional Pain People
The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.
BARBARA COOK

Dangerous Lying Safety
The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
BARBARA COOK

Inspiration Teacher Thinking
Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
BARBARA COOK

Out Over People Starting
I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
BARBARA COOK

Desire Ever Happen Quitting
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.
BARBARA COOK

Family First Paid Thinking
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.
BARBARA COOK

Afternoon Dancer Military Tap
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.
BARBARA COOK

Addiction Jobs Knows

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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