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As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#approach #certainly #different #different points #director

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#listen #make #them #then #you

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time. ↗

— David Canary

#freak #him #i #listen #time

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#him #i #know #little #little brother

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. ↗

— Eric Carle

#book #certain #distance #done #how

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#concerts #evening #i #old #sat

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#assets #certainly #effort #enhance #expect

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. ↗

— Rosalynn Carter

#best #branch #do your best #fail #failure

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#away #because #cooking #creative #creative process

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#break #deal #down #extremely #historical