Maria Callas Quotes

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

Maria Callas

• Music
• Magnificent
• Shabby way

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• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• Well who's black and what is a black person?

  

  Pam Grier
  • Black
  • Person
  • Well

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

  Larry King
  • Being
  • Broadcaster

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • She
  • Better
  • Information

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Easy
  • Gift

• Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Want
  • Look

• As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Black
  • Me
  • Color

• Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Done
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Question
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Good
  • Respect

• For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Running

• When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • Young
  • Program

• I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.

  

  Santiago Leyva
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

  

  Kasey Chambers
  • Music
  • Way
  • Play

• I haven't been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a really fun time.

  

  Kathy Valentine
  • Time
  • Fun

• To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Music
  • Magnificent
  • Shabby way