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.'
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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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.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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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.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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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.'
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
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I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
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I thought if I didn't write my own show, I'll rust.
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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.
