Renee Fleming Quotes

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

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• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Me

• There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Something
  • Memorial
  • Online

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Happy
  • Community
  • Childhood

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Dedicated
  • Disdain
  • Unconventional

• I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Think
  • Enjoyed

• I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • May
  • Party
  • Drink

• I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Information

• It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • Value
  • Chances

• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I am a conservative and proud of it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Proud
  • Conservative

• The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Game
  • Day

• There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Time
  • Someone
  • Impression

• I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Gay
  • Worst

• Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Die
  • Hurt
  • Say

• I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Success
  • Parents
  • Talent

• What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Reality
  • Perception
  • Designer

• While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Talent
  • Turns
  • Pampered