Maureen Forrester Quotes
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.
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I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
