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Barbara Cook [1927-0]
Rank: 105
Musician, Singer


Barbara Cook is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy, Candide and The Music Man among others, winning a Tony Award for the last. 

Courage



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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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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. Courage
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I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
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