Juan Diego Florez Quotes
I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.
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It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
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I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.
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The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.
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The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
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I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
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If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.
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This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?
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I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
