Albina Shagimuratova Quotes
I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'

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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Making music is fantastic.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
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When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
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I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'