"For a while it was hard for me to say no to work."

-- Renee Fleming

“In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.”
“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.”
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.”
“If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.”
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”

Source : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers
“A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.”
“I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.”

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