#ted

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#always #because #caught #focusing #get

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#achievers #being #mean #stopped #wanted

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#any #anything #big #big mistake #calculated

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#arts #date #event #film #gained

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#citizens #government #insulated #look #need

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do. ↗

— Louise Fletcher

#actress #because #being #especially #five

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care. ↗

— Michael Korda

#already #bad #bad news #calmly #care

I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#ally #character #choice #definitely #different

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. ↗

— Scott Turow

#death #go #love #often #shakespeare

Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#body #character #characteristics #dog #feel