Alfredo Kraus Quotes

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

Alfredo Kraus

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• I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Stage

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Different
  • Will
  • Patterns

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Think
  • Here

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Find

• My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Heaven

• I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Think
  • Church

• A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Strong

• When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Character
  • Future
  • Past

• If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Know
  • Singing
  • Pretending

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.

  

  Confucius
  • Strong
  • Memory
  • Ink

• The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.

  

  John Banville
  • People
  • Night
  • Hate

• I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

  

  Alfredo Kraus
  • People
  • Singing
  • Opera