"My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school."

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Source : "Angie Davidson Interviews Elaine Paige" by Angie Davidson, 2005.

Elaine Paige

#Teacher Quotes #Encouragement Quotes #Drama Quotes

“This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.”

Source : Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,
“Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?”
“If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this Â– Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring Â– what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!”
“I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.”
“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.”
“Tim Price is one of the real ones ! A good friend and a great player !”
“Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".”
“Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.”

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