Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster
Recitation: by Male by Female
In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.
Jodie Evans
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I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
Jessye Norman
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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.
Matt Taibbi
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It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.
Sonny Bill Williams
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The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.
Jonathan Franklin
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What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.
Diane Kruger
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
Deborah Harkness
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.
Bradley Wiggins
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We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.
Bob Menendez
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The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'
Bruno Heller
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The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.
Arca
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