Danielle de Niese Quotes

Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.

Danielle de Niese

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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.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Differences

• 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.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• 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.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Living

• Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Life
  • Adaptation
  • Symbiosis

• Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Name

• When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Like
  • Road
  • First

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Passion
  • Communication

• People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Institutions

• 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.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Time
  • Day
  • Never Forget

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hit
  • Burn
  • Flag

• Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men

• We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Challenge

• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• When I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, 'Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field - they're all doing incredible work.'

  

  Geena Davis
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Connection

• My time particles play with eternity.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Time
  • Eternity
  • Particle

• Change happens through movement and movement heals.

  

  Joseph Pilates
  • Change
  • Movement
  • Heals

• A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Obvious
  • Metaphor

• Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.

  

  Danielle de Niese