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Mel Torme Quotes

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.

Mel Torme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 13, 1925 - June 5, 1999

Topics

Play Old First Years Begin Singer

Breakfast is Special K cereal. If I'm having a big meal, it's lunch instead of dinner. Some kind of wrap, like chicken for protein. For dinner, mainly vegetables. I mix it up if I go out to eat.

Jillian Rose Reed

Breakfast Lunch Dinner Vegetables Go

I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.

Jeffrey Wright

Year Career Acting Kind Started

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

Andrew Yang

Technology Create More Going Agree

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

Robert Schumann

Music Myself Creative I Am Me

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

Robert McCloskey

Time Acceptance Book Bag First Rope

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

Jeff Kinney

Father Mother Childhood Government

Frankly, sometimes you have to go into the belly of the beast, as they say, and take on some of these individuals even if they're entirely unprofessional, like Tucker Carlson.

Michael Avenatti

You Beast Go Sometimes Say They Say

Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood.

Stephanie Coontz

Marriage Valentine's Day Romantic Day

I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything.

Mira Nair

Dream Living Land Eat Everything

I always think all the other comedians in New York hate me - I'm just convinced that they all dislike me - when, generally, I think I'm a pretty well-respected guy.

Chris Gethard

Hate New York Me Think New Dislike

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

Clifford D. Simak

Light Values Race More Human Reason

Actions lie louder than words.

Bob Wells

Words Lie Actions Than Louder