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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I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
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You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?'
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Never let your love to be defined by your ex’s.
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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.
