"I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes."

Ability, Career, Choice

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"I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes."

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"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."

Tom Wopat, American Actor

Ability, Song, Voice

"An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons."

Major Taylor, American Athlete

Ability, Obvious, Will

"Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets."

Lawrence Eagleburger, American Diplomat

Ability, Right, Service, World

"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Ability, Appearance, Guest, Play

"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."

Gary Miller, American Politician

Ability, Citizenship, Hospitals, Treatment

"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

Johann G. Hamann, German Philosopher

Ability, Language, Reason

"Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton."

Bernie Worrell, American Musician

Ability, First, Universe, Want

"Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel."

Tim Murphy, Canadian Politician

Ability, America, Oil

"The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment."

Bob Ney, American Politician

Ability, America, Being, Children

"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."

Erykah Badu, American Musician

Ability, Emotion, Feeling, Holiday

Explore more quotes by Suzanne Farrell

"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."

Ballet

"The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible."

Ballet

"And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession."

Thought

"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around."

Love

"As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate."

Music

"I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing."

Work

"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."

Life

"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."

Work

"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."

Life

"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for."

Body