Montserrat Caballe Quotes
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Everybody grows but me.
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.
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I was a very strange child.
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Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
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I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.
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John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
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I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
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Many people experience Gethsemane moments.
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We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.
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Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.
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Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.
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The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
