"Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons."

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Source : Jessye Norman (2014). “Stand Up Straight and Sing!”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jessye Norman

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“And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.”
“The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.”
“Never underestimate a populist. We have come to a moment where language is very important. Saying the media is the number one enemy of society is a way to create confusion and set people against each other. It's like a virus. Democracy dies and is born every day. If you don't take an active role in what is going on, somebody can easily steal it from you.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.”
“I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.”
“There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.”
“There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.”

Source : Entry in the journal for August 22, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.
“The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.”

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