"I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels."

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Source : "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 19, 2014.

Dolora Zajick

#Use Quotes #Vowels Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.”
“I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.”
“It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.”

Source : Jacqueline Winspear (2004). “Birds of a Feather”, p.167, Soho Press
“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.”
“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”

Source : Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.13, A&C Black
“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”
“Itâ€™s been me all along,â€ said September slowly. â€œMe who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtnâ€™t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. Iâ€™ve got to see it through, donâ€™t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because sheâ€™s missing the part of her thatâ€™s me. Weâ€™ve got to come together again. And he canâ€™t do a thing about that.”
“At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.”

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