Leontyne Price Quotes
Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
 
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	I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.   
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	We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.   
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	Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.   
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	That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.   
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	Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.   
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	For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.   
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	I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.   
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	I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.   
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	I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.   
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	I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.   
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	I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.   
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	As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.   
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	I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.   
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	The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.   
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	Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!   
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	If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.   
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	I want to do a make-up line for men.   
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	I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.   
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	The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.   
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	I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.   
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	I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.   
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	I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.   
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	For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.   
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	Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					