Beverly Sills Quotes

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

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• You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Live
  • You
  • Leather

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • New York

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Enough
  • Happen

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Professional
  • Poet
  • Objects

• Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Vision

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • May
  • Friends
  • Child

• If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • You
  • Forgotten
  • Frozen

• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• I have a full Tuscan lunch and dinner every day in my home; my husband's a fantastic chef.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Home
  • Husband

• Every body that is moved continues to move so long as the impression of the force of its mover is retained in it, therefore the movement of this wing with violence... will come to move the whole bird with it until the impetus of the moved air has been consumed.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Long
  • Violence
  • Air

• My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.'

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Long
  • Real
  • She

• The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Good
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Dying

• So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Listening