#pera

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#characters #comedy #desire #doing #ended

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#better #competitive #desperate #far #i

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time. ↗

— Gordon England

#know #mole #more #operation #president

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations. ↗

— John Ensign

#american #american taxpayer #cooperate #corruption #decides

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#had #i #operations #problem #three

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#al-qaeda #am #commander #encouraged #face

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon. ↗

— Alain-Fournier

#around #cooperation #exploration #framework #future

The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#back #being #bust #careful #could