Maria Callas Quotes

On stage, I am in the dark.

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• I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Art
  • Character
  • Fashion

• Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Health
  • Growth
  • Organization

• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Like
  • Say
  • Thanks

• Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Different
  • High

• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Problem
  • Depression
  • Saturday

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Road
  • Down

• Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Filmmaking

• I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I always have to be writing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Always

• The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Play
  • Role
  • Distant

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The Republicans are coming - make nice.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Nice
  • Coming
  • Republicans

• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Generosity
  • Ruin
  • Moderation

• The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way.

  

  Adam West
  • Dark

• There have been times in my life when I have felt like I can't go out without my makeup on. But now I just put on some dark glasses so people can't see if I look rough!

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • People
  • Life
  • Dark

• The state of mind and the perception you can get being on stage is amazing. The feeling between us and the audience is definitely like experiencing another level of consciousness. I’d say it has the potential for mass ritual, really. The audience doesn’t have to be aware of that - they can be there just for the music.

  

  Carl McCoy
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Stage

• As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

  

  William Glasser
  • Long
  • School
  • Goal

• My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.

  

  Joseph Gatt
  • Character
  • Relationships
  • Theater

• On stage, I am in the dark.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Dark
  • Stage