Danielle de Niese Quotes
From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
Quotes to Explore
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out when it finished. I've thought about the story every day since.
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The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
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From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
