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I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.


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ROBERT GOTTLIEB Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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AARON NEVILLE I believe it was Nat King Cole that my dad took me to see, and we were sitting in the dressing room,...
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TORI AMOS I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you...
CHARLIE SIFFORD My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
AARON NEVILLE I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.
CY TWOMBLY Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
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MOSE ALLISON I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profou...
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FRANK ABAGNALE I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love ...
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TERRY TEACHOUT I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been ...
JOAN SUTHERLAND I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice...
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TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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GILLIAN FLYNN I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
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BO DEREK Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
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SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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NATALIE MARTINEZ 'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and ...
NATALIE MARTINEZ When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster...
NATALIE MACMASTER 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as ...
NATALIE MACMASTER Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other...
NATALIE MACMASTER I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.
NATALIE MACMASTER I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
NATALIE MACMASTER There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if th...
NATALIE MACMASTER I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def L...
NATALIE MACMASTER I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although i...
NATALIE MACMASTER It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
NATALIE MACMASTER When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the ...
NATALIE MACMASTER Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
NATALIE MACMASTER The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same ki...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship ...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of cu...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutel...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It wa...
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