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Gordon Getty Quotes

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Gordon Getty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1934

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Teacher Me Remember First Opera

Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Viola Davis

Work Character People Think Someone

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

John Barrymore

Money End Why Month Left Much

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Jennifer Egan

People You Nothing Got Cares About

What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.

Jenny Shipley

Women Men Job Long Look Understand

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

Steve King

Want Will Never Some Conservatives

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

Mickey Gilley

Morning Best Potential Evening Year

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

Mike Birbiglia

Funny Me Someone You Strangers Said

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Dennis Quaid

God World Traveled Question Within

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Dorothy Day

Women Men Think More See Things

I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.

Brandy Norwood

God Feel Lady I Can Go Young

I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you've got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can't afford for you to get hurt.

Bret Hart

Champion Hurt Reality You Missed

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Bodhidharma

Ourselves Mortals Conditions Ruled