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“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
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“I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.”
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“I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.”
Source : "Anna Netrebko: quotable quotes". Interview with Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.
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“There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.”
Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.
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“Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world.”
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“In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.”
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“Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.”
Source : "FIRST LOOK; Unleashing Her Inner Child". Interview with Chee Pearlmannov, November 1, 2001.
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“We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”