Nellie Melba Quotes

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

Nellie Melba

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• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Solution

• The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Literature

• Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Fight

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Science

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • You
  • Stand
  • Soft

• The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Done
  • She
  • Character

• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Start

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

  

  Minor White
  • Doe
  • Photograph

• I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Mother
  • Son
  • Daughter

• I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.

  

  Jeffrey Brown
  • Up
  • Different
  • Art

• What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

  

  Nellie Melba
  • Art
  • Musician
  • Poet