Maureen Forrester Quotes

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

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• I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

  

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

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• Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.

  

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• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

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• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

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• I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.

  

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• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

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• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

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• In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

  

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• It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

  

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• I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

  

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• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

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• No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

  

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• We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.

  

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• The golden recipe for creating jobs is learning what kinds of people companies need and feeding them with training programmes.

  

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• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
  • Music
  • Spiritual