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Eleonora Duse Quotes

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: italian
Birth: October 3, 1858 - April 21, 1924

Topics

Life Happiness Door Isolation Create

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

Admit Will Birth Always Obvious

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Love Alone Time People Spending Time

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Jeanette Winterson

Well-Being Invisible Own Us Our

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Technology Time People Tools Nails

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.

Women Children You Down Never Lived

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

Travel Ego Think Better Person

Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.

Good Music I Am Fun Enjoy Ice

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Food Care Want Act Just Stuff

You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday.

You Everyday Wear Something

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

Annaleigh Ashford

Family Birthday Live Night Saturday

People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.

Music Time Quality People More Less

Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Live Performance Charity Pressure

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