Maria Callas Quotes
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.
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My mother left my father in their late 60s.
Dito Montiel -
Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.
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The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
