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"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."
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"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."
People
"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."
Men
"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas."
War
"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."
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"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."
Holiday
"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."
Work
"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."
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"Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder."
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"Ingredients for a terrific Christmas: Christ. Love for one another. Forgiveness. Generosity. Time. Music. Children's laughter. Reminising with loved ones. Remembering those who are alone. The making of new memories."
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"I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
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"I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out."
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"There's something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment."
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"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way."
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"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."
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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox, that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
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"Christmas is a blanket that warms our cold hearts."
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"When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary."
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