Renee Fleming Quotes
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
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I really like performing for people.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.
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The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
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We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.
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When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.
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I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.
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The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
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I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.
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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
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And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.
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I still get nervous sometimes before performing.
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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
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Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, `We're going to wipe you off the planet.'
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There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
