Joyce DiDonato Quotes

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

Joyce DiDonato

• Stage
• Gift
• Public
• Participate

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • See
  • My Life

• I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Restaurant

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Way

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Doing

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Generosity
  • Ruin
  • Moderation

• I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Know
  • Like
  • Meant

• I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Sound
  • Endeavor
  • Central

• Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • House
  • Nothing
  • Feet

• I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Failure

• Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • May
  • Years

• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunities

• If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • History
  • Memory
  • Union

• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Children
  • Better
  • Makeup

• All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Light
  • Human
  • Souls

• I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • Stage
  • Gift
  • Public