"It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice."

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Joyce DiDonato

#Expression Quotes #Voice Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?”
“Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don't understand books don't understand this. They learn from TV shows about organizing that you should get rid of the books that you aren't reading, but everyone who loves books believes the opposite. People who love books keep them around, like photos, to remind them of a great experience and so they can revisit and say, 'Wow, this is a really great book.”

Source : "Bookshop owner talks book industry, bookswapping and book love". Interview with Molly Snyder, onmilwaukee.com. September 10, 2011.
“In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.”
“Freedom is the world of joy.”
“War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.”

Source : Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.108, Springer
“Entire families work for Xerox.”
“For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.”
“The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football... the perfect match for me.”

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