"Always sing below your potential."

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Nellie Melba

“I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.”
“The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.”
“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”
“The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.”
“To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.”
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
“Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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