Lesley Garrett Quotes

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

Lesley Garrett

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• I've always wanted to do a period piece.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Always
  • Period
  • Wanted

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Process
  • Building

• Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Reality

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Food
  • Young

• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Heaven
  • Come
  • Angels

• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Tell
  • Outside

• I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • You
  • Kind
  • Always

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Equality

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Point

• I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Job

• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

  

  James Martineau
  • God
  • True

• Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Up
  • Country
  • Kids

• The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society

• Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.

  

  Binod Chaudhary
  • Different
  • Country
  • Mind

• Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • Business
  • Singing