Beverly Sills Quotes

Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.

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• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
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• I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
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• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

  

  Imran Khan
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• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
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• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
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• My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
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• Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
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• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

  Tananarive Due
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• I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
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• If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

  

  Erin Gray
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• There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.

  

  Holly Hunter
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• I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

  

  Elle Fanning
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• I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

  

  George Mastras
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• Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.

  

  Beverly Sills
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