It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.
Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?
To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.