Leontyne Price Quotes

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

Leontyne Price

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• Long
• Beautiful
• Woman
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• Female

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• My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hate
  • First
  • Lottery

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Responsibility
  • Need
  • Take

• What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Real
  • Friendship

• I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Share
  • Events
  • Destroy

• My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Shadow
  • Hip Hop

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Try
  • Something
  • Carry

• My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • World
  • Writing
  • Done

• What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Feels

• I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Team
  • Year
  • Injuries

• 'PhotoCard' has 20 times as much code as the sum of 'QuickDraw,' 'MacPaint,' and 'HyperCard.' It is more elaborate and complicated, with all the client and server stuff. It took a lot more of me to do this than other projects, requiring an almost Mother Teresa dedication to do it.

  

  Bill Atkinson
  • Mother
  • Dedication

• I don't intend to stop making music.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Music
  • Stop

• I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

  

  Jerry Ferrara
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Football

• 'All people are insane,' he said. 'They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Long
  • Eyes
  • Door

• For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful