Andrea Bocelli Quotes
In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.
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I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
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In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.
