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!
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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.
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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.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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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.
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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.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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.
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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.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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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.
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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.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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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.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.
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I die happy.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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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.
