"My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education."

-- Renee Fleming

#Night Quotes #Parent Quotes #Singing Quotes

“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.”
“Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.”
“Of course, East Germans had children, they fell in love, and the grass was green and the wind was blowing. It's 40 years. It's a generation. There was a big wave of nostalgia, we call it "Eastalgia," where they said it was not always bad.”
“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

Source : "'Capitalism is evil,' says new Michael Moore film" by Mike Collett-White, www.reuters.com. September 6, 2009.
“If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.”
“Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.”
“My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.”
“Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.2012, Penguin

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