"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."

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Willa Cather

#Sports Quotes #Voice Quotes #World Quotes

“Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.”
“I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.”

Source : "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.
“The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.”
“Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 111), 1886.
“Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.”
“Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.”
“I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.”
“"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."”

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