Sarah Caldwell Quotes
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
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Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
