"One is just given a talent, and it's……" — Joan Sutherland
"One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it."
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Joan Sutherland
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13 Quotes by Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland has 13 quotes on this site.
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I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.
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If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva,…
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I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.
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I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time.…
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You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do…
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I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself…
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Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that…
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But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to…
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My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.
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All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people
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The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we…
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I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't'…
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
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