"Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform."

-- Giuseppe Verdi

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“During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.”

Source : "Making waves" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2000.
“A real groupie is someone who loves the music and wants to do it with the guys who make it and someone who goes after what they want, so a groupie is a feminist thing. A woman who goes after what she wants is a feminist. So I've never been anything but a feminist. I took the birth control pill on the Strip in front of everybody and that was my statement. I control my body, I can do whatever the heck I want.”
“Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need to know itâ€™s true. And Heâ€™s not just doing one or two or a few things in that situation. He is doing a thousand or more things.”

Source : Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2012). “The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings”, p.39, Moody Publishers
“I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.”
“We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?”
“You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals”
“I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and hes so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think thats what movies should be about.”

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