"My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing."

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Source : "Sparkle Break-out Star Tika Sumpter". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.ebony.com. August 28, 2012.

Tika Sumpter

#Mom Quotes #Careers Quotes #Opera Quotes

“I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.”

Source : Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright
“[The highs and lows of show business is] a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.”
“Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.”

Source : Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd
“If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.”
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
“My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.”
“What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.”
“Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]”

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