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When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
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I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.
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I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.
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The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
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The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
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I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit.
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My music is just as much me as it is everybody else.
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When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time.
