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Your warmth, friendliness, and openness with your fans has always impressed me, even when I have met you backstage after shows. Do you have any particularly memorable encounters with fans that are either amusing and strange or lovely and moving? KevinFillis
I have no doubt that I do. You will have to allow me some time to consider it over a span of sixty years. I recall how subdued the British audiences appeared to be. I said something terrible like, “Is everybody out there alive?” one night in Leeds. They simply were
My self-assurance in speaking has never wavered. I can say that because I maintain and deliver it, not because I invented it. Like everyone else, I guess I lost confidence and felt bewildered during times when my career was truly going haywire.
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The following was written in my junior high yearbook: “Joanie Baez will become a cartoonist.” I sold my sketches and caricatures of Jimmy Dean, my school pals, and opera types that my mother enjoyed, such as Swedish opera singer Jussi Björling, for $5. I do not believe I ever considered, “I better start creating cartoons or selling bathing suits,” but I had other options. The singing was taken for granted.
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