"One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it."

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Source : "Dame Joan Sutherland obituary" by Alan Blyth, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

Joan Sutherland

#Talent Quotes #Given Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Love is illegal - but not hate. That you can do anywhere, anytime, to anybody. But if you want a little warmth, a little tenderness, a shoulder to cry on, a smile to cuddle up with, you have to hide in dark corners, like a criminal.”

Source : "Fictional character: Moustache". "Irma la Douce", www.imdb.com. 1963.
“But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, â€œI never asked to be born in the first place.”
“Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.”
“Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.”
“My customers are successful workingwomen.”
“No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.”
“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.”
“If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.”

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