The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing
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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
Andrew Young
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There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
Maya Hawke
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I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
Michael Chabon
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I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
Siri Hustvedt
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I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.
Rod Steiger
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I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.
Joss Whedon
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Over the years, I've had a few roles where I've had to take my shirt off. I've kind of been the 'shirt-off' guy.
Dean Geyer
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I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.
Chrissy Teigen
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Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
Brit Morin
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All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.
Athol Fugard
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Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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