Quotes by Danielle De Niese - Page 1

Mozart is my first strength.
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Mozart
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I got into singing when I was 6.
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Singing
Got
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My parents kept me very grounded.
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Grounded
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Music can be a source of escapism.
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Escapism
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I love Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik.
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Jimmy
Love I Love
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I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!
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Santa
Santa Claus
Believed
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I'm a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.
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Hug
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You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.
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Abuse
Yelling
Screaming
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I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
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Care
Self Preservation
Take Care
Take
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To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
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Eight
Opera
Opera Singer
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Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
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Contracts
Outreach
Appearances
Schools
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One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
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Favourite
Great Gatsby
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I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.
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Casual
Dressed
Suppose
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I've always considered myself to be a travelling soul. I've never felt out of place anywhere.
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Considered
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My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping.
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Fashion
Shopping
Love Me Mother
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Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
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Agree
Opera
Advance
Engagements
Unfortunately
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I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.
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Commonwealth
Cricket
Sandwiches
Cucumber
Queen
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My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'
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Los Angeles
Angeles
Los
Mozart
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I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey.
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Journey
Cry
Fortunate
Olympian
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My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.
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Blood
Professional Life
Life Time Home
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One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.
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Innocence
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My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
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Banking
Busy
Mum
Swiss
Branch
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The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.
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Ultimate
Me Singing Way
Expressing
Fuels
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I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream.
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Olympian
Realised
Small Child
Whom
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Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.
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Dna
Most Powerful
Life Music Me
Banal
Integral
Soundtrack
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We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.
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Choices
Our Lives
Afford
Seek
Searching
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I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.
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Accents
Attention
Boundaries
California
Class
England
Lots
Apart
Regional
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I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.
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Sang
Produced
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I don't feel I'm fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before the audience arrives and look out to this vast empty house. There's something therapeutic about taking in the ring where you'll perform.
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Empty
Therapeutic
Ring
Perform
Vast
Huge Audience
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From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
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Perspective
Escape
For The Day
Hopes
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In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.
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Biographies
Favourite
Schubert
Bookstore
Bought
Breaks
Composers
Wolf
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What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.
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Charm
Humour
Love Great Me
Restrained
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