Carlisle Floyd Quotes

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Carlisle Floyd

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• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• Music is my release.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Music
  • Release

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Night
  • Running

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Overcome

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

  

  Ted Lange
  • People
  • Job
  • Light

• Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Running
  • Run

• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • War
  • End
  • Cold

• I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Success
  • Present
  • Car

• The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

  

  Ned Rorem
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Great

• It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Black
  • Simple
  • Black-and-white

• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Language

• It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Art
  • Me
  • Opera