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Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 11, 1967

Topics

Funny People Me Brain Think You

The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

John Burnside

Son Beach Birds Sunday Little Urban

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan

Me End Short Look Three Squad

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Meg White

Truth You Know Lazy Because

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

Jeanette Winterson

World Wonder Go Say True They Say

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Amy Adams

Great Quality People Me Revenge

If I had grown up in London, I wouldn't have been as keen to become a comedian or a writer. I'd have been able to see a lot of good films and music and comedy. I'd have been distracted. As it was, I had to make it.

Stewart Lee

Good Music Comedy London Become See

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

Roger Penrose

Brother Society Royal Older Fellow

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Russell Banks

Early Years Eighties Taught NYU

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

Mitski

People Me Think Pressure Play More

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

Jason Priestley

Speed Never Limit Speed Limit Exceed

I believe I am an honorable man.

Joseph J. Ellis

Man I Am Believe I Believe Honorable

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Wife School Me Think Learn Ready