Sarah Brightman Quotes

When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

Sarah Brightman

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Die
  • Dad
  • Mad

• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Know
  • Succeed

• You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Home
  • Movies

• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • King
  • Lion

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• I hate to travel with stuff.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Stuff

• I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Where

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Music
  • You
  • Connection

• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Romantic
  • Really
  • Fact

• Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Why

• The big thing is that you know what you want.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Want
  • You
  • Know

• We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Gift
  • Guys
  • Sing

• It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Heart
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Bible

• Everybody says, 'Oh my god, Trixie! It must be so amazing, it must be like everything's just handed to you!', and the truth is, yes. Everything is just handed to me. Unfortunately, I have two hooks.

  

  Trixie Mattel
  • God
  • Trixie

• When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Eyes
  • Sound
  • Sing