"I donâ€™t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces â€˜intelligence."

-- Susan Sontag

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“It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses." "That is a whole lotta roses," she said. "That's too much." "Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, 'That's the good one.' And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now." Connie had narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying when you're at school you just want to get rid of everyone?”
“My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.”
“My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, â€˜Donâ€™t be Sicilyâ€™.”
“Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.”
“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
“I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.”
“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.”

Source : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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