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Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you ne... JESSYE NORMAN I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more. JESSYE NORMAN I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a ch... JESSYE NORMAN It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power ... JESSYE NORMAN I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems b... JESSYE NORMAN I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what eve... JESSYE NORMAN We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must... JESSYE NORMAN I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparati... JESSYE NORMAN I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early ag... JESSYE NORMAN I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages ... JESSYE NORMAN 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wis... JESSYE NORMAN I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Straus... JESSYE NORMAN I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees. JESSYE NORMAN I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to unders... JESSYE NORMAN I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. JESSYE NORMAN I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. JESSYE NORMAN If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something di... JESSYE NORMAN The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very... 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