"The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins."

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Source : Note in the score to "The Poisoned Kiss" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1936.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

Source : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”
“I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.”
“A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.”
“I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138”
“I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.”

Source : Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, W Publishing Group
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”
“Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed”
“When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.”

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