Renee Fleming Quotes

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Renee Fleming

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PerformanceThinkNeverUpWhere

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

Jo Bonner

HistoryPeopleWritingCountryNever

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

Anderson Silva

FamilyHeartTimeLegGiveMy Time

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

Amiri Baraka

Be KindPeopleTryingI CanKind

Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.

Stephanie Coontz

FamilyInequalityRisingChanged

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

Sloane Crosley

AttentionOutSpotlightArtistsPart

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

Martin Seligman

SurpriseBetterInterestingActing

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

Mike Birbiglia

PeopleSmallBetterIndependentDays

When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.

Louie Anderson

FunnyWordsLongPersonJust Because

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Chinua Achebe

JourneyPurposePeopleWorldServe

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

Piper Perabo

BestSchoolHigh SchoolHighSide

We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.

Suzy Menkes

CreativePeopleDemonsKnow

Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories.

Seth Shostak

TimeEnoughBackAir ForceBeyond

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