Anna Netrebko Quotes
As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
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I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.
