Jessye Norman Quotes
There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.Jessye Norman
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
Action Bronson -
I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
Victor Webster -
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
Caitriona Balfe -
I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
Zadie Smith -
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
Randy Falco -
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P. J. O'Rourke
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.
Ian Anderson -
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Carlton Cuse -
Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
Rakul Preet Singh
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I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.
Jane Seymour -
Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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Flannery O'Connor -
I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to tell stories that haven't been told before but can't do that on TV because different stories are a risk.
Felicia Day -
There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.
Jessye Norman