#iv

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#art #else #expressive #just #me

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#clever #dive #focus #funny #get

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#driven #first #hadn #i #joe

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#especially #everyone #feel #fit #i

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#began #freedom #i #life #live

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #audiences #automatically #compliment #greatest

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#because #characters #charged #choose #composer

Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#identify #positively #pull #sure #target

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#am #government #i #i am #ideology