Carlisle Floyd Quotes

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

Carlisle Floyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

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StoryEasyYouForgetWayOthers

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

SuccessTimeWomanSoulManMy Soul

I don't want to put happiness off to the future, because you never know what life will bring.

Jennifer Connelly

LifeFutureHappinessYouKnowWant

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

Sophie Hannah

KnowCrimeWayNeedFiction

I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It's what drives anyone to be interested in the arts. I think it's a poetic gene; it's a wanting to go beyond.

Stephen Hough

MusicWordsWritingThinkGoBeyond

I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy.

Sugar Ray Leonard

HeartLightDarknessControlPlace

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

Steven A. Cohen

TodayArtReadingLostUsefulVery

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

Mike Pence

HeartGratefulWillNationHeroes

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

Dennis Prager

MarriageSocietyYearsPosition

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

WarRandomBookHousePhotographer

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Corrie Ten Boom

FutureGodTrustUnknownNever

If there's going to be the development of a commercial space economy, whatever it is, shouldn't you do your exploration to prepare a path for what's going to come next?

Bruce Pittman

PathSpaceYouExplorationEconomy

Think I'll win. Could be big.

Bob Dole

WinThinkBigCould

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