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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
Popular

"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
Father

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
Feelings

"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section."
Time

"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
First

"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."
Artist

"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
Joy

"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
Time

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
Chicago

"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."
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"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
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"The word of my lord is the sword for world."
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"My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"But words - words are not enough!"
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"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
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"And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
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"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
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"I jokingly refer to the word "gourmet" as the "g" word."
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"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
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