My father and Frank Sinatra respected each other's abilities enormously. My father always said Frank brought out the best in him. And his arrangements gave Frank a new musical playground to wander in. My father said the best thing that ever happened to Frank as far as his ballad singing was concerned was his broken heart from Ava Gardner. Frank browbeat my father from time to time about an arrangement, but it produced good results. Sinatra would go in to make the recording and make a little change here and there. He'd say, 'Do a little Puccini thing there.' Or a little Gershwin or Ellington or whatever. My father would make a cryptic note. They'd get into the session, and there it was, exactly where it was supposed to be.
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SØREN KIERKEGAARD Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,” Will said. “That for my father, there was on... CASSANDRA CLARE Frank Miller was worried it would be tempered down; it wouldn't be quite what he originally intended... CLIVE OWEN Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the to... AVA GARDNER My father never signed another contract with Miller. But Miller had a return receipt that was suppos... WILLIAM GAMBLER my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit... ERIC RIPERT The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer ... PELE Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a fa... AJAY MEHTA Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never g... 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It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miam... CARMEN BUSQUETS We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitc... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There ... LATA MANGESHKAR My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m... STEPHEN GREENBLATT He said Frank Reich was always there pushing him to be better every day. That's the way it was ... a... J.P. LOSMAN My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put... DAVID EDWARDS My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... 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CHRISTOPHER QUILL Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe... CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes... CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so
much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI