If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Barbara Cook

Barbara Cook (born October 25, 1927) is a Tony Award winning American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1958) among others. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid 1970s, when she began a second career that continues to this day as a cabaret and concert singer

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