Andrea Bocelli Quotes
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.
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When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'
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You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.
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We are fastened to a dying animal.
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They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
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When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.
