Jessye Norman Quotes
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
-
People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
-
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
-
On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
-
While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
-
I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
-
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
-
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
-
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
-
I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
-
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
-
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
-
At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
-
You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
-
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
-
Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
-
Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
-
At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.
-
There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.
-
We sent a guy called Terry Slater a couple of demos, using the last of our money. And then things turned. He landed us a deal with Warners and said just keep coming up with songs, because when success hits you, you won't even know your name.
-
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
