Jessye Norman Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
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The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
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I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.
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The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
