Jessye Norman Quotes
We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.
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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
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Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.
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Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
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Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.
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We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.
