The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.


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Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
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It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
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Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
I have to watch out for being lazy.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a v...
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There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
...
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, whi...
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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I took drugs because we all took drugs.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
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I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
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I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
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I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
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The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoug...
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The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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God is definitely out of the closet.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Joy, has no cost.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
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The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
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Your self-assurance scares me.’
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Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you,” means, “Dear God, let me see this person throug...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the per...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusio...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingeri...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuin...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pu...
MARIANNE MOORE
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it...
MARIANNE MOORE
Superior people never make long visits
MARIANNE MOORE
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief
MARIANNE MOORE
The spiritual path -- is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; mo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond mea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cros...
MARIANNE MOORE
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I a...
MARIANNE MOORE
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time
MARIANNE MOORE
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ...
MARIANNE MOORE
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism sh...
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