Sarah Siddons famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.
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Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!
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The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.
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. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .
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. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.
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Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.
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I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.
-- Sarah Siddons
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
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A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
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But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
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The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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I have a pretty lousy voice.
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