Danielle de Niese Quotes
Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
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The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.
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At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
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I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform
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You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
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I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.
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Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
