Danielle de Niese Quotes
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.
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I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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Parcite, mortales, dapibus temerare nefandiscorpora! sunt fruges, sunt deducentia ramospondere poma suo tumidaeque in vitibus uvae,sunt herbae dulces, sunt quae mitescere flammamollirique queant; nec vobis lacteus umoreripitur, nec mella thymi redolentia florem:prodiga divitias alimentaque mitia tellussuggerit atque epulas sine caede et sanguine praebet.
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
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I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.
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There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
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Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
