Galina Vishnevskaya famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
-- Galina Vishnevskaya -
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
-- Galina Vishnevskaya
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?†I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!
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