Kathleen Battle Quotes

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

Kathleen Battle

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• The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • You
  • Actor

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Remember

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • May
  • City
  • New

• I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Life
  • Within
  • Secrecy

• I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wife

• I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Insecure
  • Sleeping

• … they believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • Believe

• Friday. Five o'clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to move unobserved through a city. Or, maybe the easiest. Because at five o'clock on a Friday nobody pays attention to anything. Except the road ahead.

  

  Lee Child
  • Time
  • Attention
  • City

• The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Remember

• At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

  

  Bernice King
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Work
  • Why
  • Fashion

• If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • Desire
  • Difference

• I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • World
  • Business
  • Player

• New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Life
  • City
  • New York