Birgit was unique! Her voice, her artistry, her sense of humor and her friendship were in a class of their own. I was so fortunate to hear her sing many times over the years, and eventually to work with her on several memorable occasions with Wagner and Strauss.
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Related The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substanc... ALBERT CLAUDE Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of... HENRY ROLLINS She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unsha... JANE AUSTEN We've been fortunate to have found some places. We're real gypsies. Amy works hard on her own and sh... DENNIS HARDESTY To see her was to fall in love with her. To hear her was to hear music. To feel her was to feel silk... CARLOS SALINAS She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... ELIZABETH HARDWICK Over her four years she has worked so hard and a lot of her points have come from that hard work. It... BARRY DUTT somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know... NTOZAKE SHANGE Her writing was fun, breezy and addictive. I connected with her voice. KIRSTEN SMITH Nancy Scott was worldly, funny and gritty in her approach to her work, ... She had a fine sense of o... PHIL BRONSTEIN you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had o... ANN PATCHETT It was just 1-on-1 with me and her, and I knew I had the height advantage over her, so I just took i... CANDACE PARKER Her spirit is so huge it would help me to hear her personality in her voice, PERI GILPIN A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a ... BARBARA GORDON I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sigh... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... JOHNNY CASH With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was ... CAMERON MONAGHAN The intensity of intention inside a woman’s mind to reign like a queen is so pronounced that she e... ANUJ SOMANY Her mental side was so strong. And her family values were so strong. They had such a good plan and w... GARY GILCHRIST She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meetin... LAINI TAYLOR I can feel you watching me." Her breathy voice slid over him and it felt like her fingers were runni... SETTA JAY On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts. He touched her ge... KEN STARR Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was b... CASSANDRA CLARE Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her... J. RAYMOND So many people, whether they knew her or not, felt somehow connected to her. If you went out with he... ANDRE BISHOP So many people, whether they knew her or not, felt somehow connected to her. If you went out with he... ANDRE BISHOP She was an incredible basketball player, but her truest gifts were her personality and love for the ... JOAN BONVICINI Her work with children and families in Iowa was really the focus of her legislative activity. JAN BAUER Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own... MARK TWAIN All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beaut... TONI MORRISON Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and somet... KRISTIN CASHORE Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me... PAULO COELHO I always say the person who taught me how to sing indirectly because I listened to her all the time ... JHENE AIKO When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I th... JANE HORROCKS She got stuck under the house, and I could hear her meowing, and I couldn't get her. She was 13 year... DIANE WHITE He tore off her pajamas. She wasn't out with a fresh face of makeup with her hair done or a short dr... ANONYMOUS1234 It was her first tournament to ever carry her own clubs for 18 holes, so we were so proud of her for... TERESA BOWMAN Part of it was her charisma. Part of it was her look and part of it was her sense of humour, JAY CHANDRASEKHAR Zane stole her breath and her common sense with just a smile. When he actually touched her, it was e... NICOLE EDWARDS Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow
Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
Her e... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) But there was something about this girl that made him want to hear her opinions on everything, hear ... ADI ALSAID The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisi... ANNE HECHE I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her out... MADONNA CICCONE Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil... DOROTHY PARKER Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, s... LAINI TAYLOR Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with... J.K. ROWLING She was famous, and she was insane. Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellb... DIANNE SYLVAN I just bent her over and kissed her. She went her way and I went mine. We never said a word to each ... ERNEST DUBAY I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have ... DEAN KOONTZ Many of her goals were with her left foot. And she's not left-footed. BRENT WALSTON ...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any... HENRY JAMES As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo... FREDERICK WEISEL I talked to several of her children and they were so encouraging and supportive. I just hope I've do... REESE WITHERSPOON I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive. JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN I see her smile or hear her voice and know that I am blessed. LILY CHATTERJEE Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... CHARLES DICKENS She got up several times, crying with her head in her hands, but not loud outbursts. MICHELLE GONZALES Her attention to detail was fabulous. People loved working with her and for her. CAROLYN LAYNE Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so... GASTON LEROUX If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloo... L. M. MONTGOMERY I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked wit... CELIA REES I'm always buying her jewelry. And I have a couple of her stained-glass panels, too, some of her ear... BETH JONES I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing w... DAVID GEST I met Lana in her final years and liked her a great deal. We got along really well. She said if ther... SHARON STONE When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her... ANTHONY FAUCI I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit... ROBERT WILSON It was her problem, and she'd deal with it. Because dealing with personal problems was so fucking hi... STACIA KANE Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of ... ELIZABETH GOUDGE I think about Mom and how she'd keep us entertained with her sense of humor during Dad's deployments... BOBBY JOHNSON I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dri... JAMES THURBER Eventually, the smell of her favorite treats won over her stomach. JAY CHRISTIE She was chewing her fingernails for two days straight. I said she's going to have to meet people wit... KATE GOLDEN I'm going to miss her humor and her insight. She had a very dry sense of humor. She would sit there ... KAREN CARLSON She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was fee... KEVIN BROCKMEIER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond... LIONEL HAMPTON My father, father!' - she might pray to the winds; no innocence moves her judges mad for war. <... AESCHYLUS He went to her room and grabbed her by the neck, started to strangle her and punched her a couple of... RAPHAEL BERGERON As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them... BIBLE Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and... MICHAEL JACKSON This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the ... CARSON MCCULLERS The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline... JOHN GREEN After a while Luce curled up with her head leaning on a rock, wondering why she wasn't consumed with... SARAH PORTER My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts... LAURA SCHLESSINGER So I’ve seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favor... KIM HARRISON I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed... JORI NUNES When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she ke... SANYA RICHARDS First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II That's something you hear about forwards. Bigger. Faster. Stronger. That's not Tiffany. And that's n... PAULA WILKINS I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul. MELODY LEE Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in lov... TAHEREH MAFI My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wa... KIM HARRISON The dying swan, when years her temples pierce,
In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,
... PHINEAS FLETCHER It was just a classic All-American performance, in terms of her aggressiveness and her willingness t... JOANNE P. MCCALLIE Kiss me again,” he challenged, only half joking. It was so weird to hear him say that, to hea... KIMBERLY DERTING Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed... ANNE RICE She was the first member of her family to go to college, and her parents wanted her to stay in Balti... JOAN GRIFFITH Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN
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