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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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
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Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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I need my time to be lonely.
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I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.
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Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
