#cal

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in! ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#ago #because #grew #i #indignant

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

I like to listen the blues and some classical. ↗

— Peter Tork

#classical #i #like #listen #some

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. ↗

— Mel Torme

#am #dead #eight #folks #get

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man. ↗

— Rip Torn

#disappear #friends #greatest #had #i

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#any #arrived #art college #beach #becoming

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#called #did #john #jonah #me

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#died #frank #frank sinatra #musical #sinatra

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#i #i am #i think #mentally #physically

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #beings #drawn #fraction #human