Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes

As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: July 7, 1911 - February 1, 2007

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I play dominoes all the way until I got Bible study. And then I do Bible study. I go to the game. After the game, come home. Dinner. Dominoes until I go to sleep. I'm. Not. Joking.

Jimmy Butler

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On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

Jenny Holzer

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At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

Michael Dirda

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I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.

Robert Barnes

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I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

Roop Durgapal

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I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.

Michiel Huisman

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I knew that part of the problem with sensitive issues is that, because they're uncomfortable to address, we have a hard time doing so honestly, if at all.

Jay Asher

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You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

Jordan Peele

BlackYouWantNeverRoomGuy

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

Johnny Knoxville

GodGreatSufferingThinkYouMeet

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

DMX

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I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.

Peter Shaffer

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Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

Peter Jackson

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