Joyce DiDonato Quotes

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

Joyce DiDonato

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• I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Thought
  • Flying
  • Now

• It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Live
  • Man
  • Watch

• I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Cinema
  • Available

• I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Black
  • Mom
  • Myself

• Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • History
  • Best
  • Competition

• Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Like
  • Prince
  • Beatles

• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Own
  • Comfortable

• I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Time
  • Giving

• When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Blessing

• Music can tear me up inside.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Me

• Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Feeling

• Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu

• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Small
  • Best

• I do Pilates and yoga and try to eat healthy.

  

  Amy Smart
  • Yoga

• I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Work
  • Better

• I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Think
  • Game
  • Same

• I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • Yoga
  • Strength
  • Flexibility