"I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time."

-- Kiri Te Kanawa

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“The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.”
“In order to make a movie it isn't enough to have a script, it isn't enough to have a director, it isn't enough to have a male actor and a female actor, it isn't enough to have financing. You have to have them all at the same instant.”
“We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”
“I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped â€” when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.”
“And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.”
“I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role”

Source : "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
“Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'”
“One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism.”

Source : "Francisco Franco : The Times and the Man" by Joaquin Arraras, (p. 159), 1938.

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