Ethel Smyth Quotes
When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's feeling so India! All she needs is long, black hair and a trip to the Caribbean to burn her skin up.'
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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato,Quando felice in su la ruota siede:Però c'ha i veri e i finti amici a lato,Che mostran tutti una medesma fede.Se poi si cangia in tristo il lieto stato,Volta la turba adulatrice il piede;E quel che di cor ama riman forte,Ed ama il suo signor dopo la morte.
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I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
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In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.
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I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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Focus on fire attack, don't do unnecessary things.
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I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.
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When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !