I am a person of the 18th century.


Cecilia Bartoli

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The tour is bracketed by the 18th-century mill and the 18th-century ferry landing.
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Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
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They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN
Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybri...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY
One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.
HARRY ANDERSON
But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN
What we're trying to do is mix an 18th century building with 21st century building technology.
BRUCE LOWE
It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century...
CLEMENT ATTLEE
If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the ...
CATHERINE MARTIN
As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and gr...
ANN RADCLIFFE
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and t...
M. H. ABRAMS
When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as th...
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Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give...
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Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
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"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decid...
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The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing ...
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Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy...
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Actually, I would love to do some Handel operas. The oratorios are also beautiful. I would love to d...
CECILIA BARTOLI
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
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You have different directors, and as a singer you have to be an actress too. It's a fusion-make sing...
CECILIA BARTOLI
Sometimes I can have a desire to do this and that, but my voice-it likes to go straight.
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I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's...
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I don't want to say the career is my prince, because I want a real prince. I feel it's a little like...
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It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building...
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I was surprised to learn that Gluck spent some months in Prague at the time when we know operas by V...
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The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive ...
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I think at least God said hello to me. I was lucky, lucky to have the voice, but also lucky to have ...
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When I suggested a Vivaldi disc [in the late 90s], it was difficult to convince them to do it. But i...
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I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
CECILIA BARTOLI
The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That f...
CECILIA BARTOLI
When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you hav...
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I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI
Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what...
CECILIA BARTOLI
You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
CECILIA BARTOLI
Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, unt...
CECILIA BARTOLI
I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for i...
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It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and buil...
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"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who ...
CECILIA BARTOLI
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
CECILIA BARTOLI
The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the mo...
CECILIA BARTOLI
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and the...
CECILIA BARTOLI
German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Swi...
CECILIA BARTOLI
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine ...
CECILIA BARTOLI
I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian f...
CECILIA BARTOLI
I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle....
CECILIA BARTOLI
So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
CECILIA BARTOLI
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in...
CECILIA BARTOLI
Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
CECILIA BARTOLI
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started...
CECILIA BARTOLI
Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It w...
CECILIA BARTOLI
Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ...
CECILIA BARTOLI
It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.
CECILIA BARTOLI
So you see, movies are really another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious...
DIANA GABALDON
I think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a ...
MARION BARTOLI
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-cen...
WILLIAM MANCHESTER
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern ...
TOBIAS SMOLLETT
... de jongen soo verbaast gaauw tegen de stijlte weer op liep, schreeuwende luijtkeels de schuijt v...
MARIA WILHELMINA LAMMENS
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE
There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can fin...
JEFFREY SMITH
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH
It's only relatively recently, since the 18th century, that people expected religion to make them ha...
DARRIN MCMAHON
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi...
JONATHAN COE
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed b...
ROBERT SMITHSON
In the late 18th century, the bird sound would have been considered high-tech science, like the adva...
DAVID HIGGS
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have co...
LYNNE TRUSS
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colo...
BARBRA STREISAND
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-...
DAVID NIELSEN
At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
TARAJI P. HENSON
If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai ...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE
A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a patholog...
NICOLE KRAUSS
It encompasses practically every form and every style and every technique starting from the 13th cen...
JAMES WATT
The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex ...
TOM REISS
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20...
PAUL ENGLE
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible...
WHIT STILLMAN
(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR
When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel...
JAMES FENTON
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain,...
DAVID LISS
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have...
MARGARET O'BRIEN
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the ...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS
Old Filey lies around the Ravine, a glacial gash running down to Coble Landing. This is the fishing ...
DAVID HEWSON
If I had to choose between betraying my country or betraying my friend, I hope I should have the GUT...
E.M. FORSTER (18TH CENTURY WRITER)
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
EDNITA NAZARIO
Even if we don't raise the taxes, so much more money is going to come in. That's the only thing the ...
BILL WITHERS
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th centur...
MATTHEW STEWART
Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediate...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR

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Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ...
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We certainly support his nomination. I think he's a great choice.
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It's frustrating to know we have this incredible opportunity for kids [that] we're already beginning...
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This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.
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I'm so proud of him it's unbelievable.
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This is a dream come true for him. We're so proud.
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I wouldn't miss it for the world.
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It's a wonderful decision. I applaud all of them.
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He likes to share his energy. That has always been his way of communicating. He's in a very protecte...
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I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned.
CECILIA MUNOZ
It is a bill that has driven more than a million people out this week.
CECILIA MUNOZ
The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.
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Cardinal Mahony speaking out unleashed something really big. He, the church, made this issue public ...
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We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.
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That one fact is why people are not coming through legal channels.
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There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothi...
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Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conf...
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This is not something to be playing politics with. The lives of millions of people are at stake here...
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They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.
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The principals are in full support of this.
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What immigrants feel immediately is isolation.
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We feel the online program is comparable to a face-to-face setting because teachers write the curric...
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It's a big deal. If you're living with the pain and numbness, it's a big deal.
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I just kind of gradually was able to lift more within two weeks very little pain and of course a sma...
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I went to a doctor and had it diagnosed but then thought, I can't do it. I'd have to be off two week...
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She has been staying with me since April 4. It's been working out good. It's better for them because...
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It's for the kids. It's like you are giving a new life to a child.
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I would love if she could get donations to maybe go to Disney World or something before she leaves, ...
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A lot of people donate their miles. The Rotary only pays for hospitalization, the operation and medi...
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The point of adoption is to create a new family with all the rights and responsibilities that go wit...
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I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all ...
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She was very accomplished and this was before the feminist movement.
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We are calling on leadership on both sides of the aisle to get back to it. The life of millions of p...
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This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordin...
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And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single sec...
CECILIA VINESSE
We will not accept enforcement-only approaches.
CECILIA MUNOZ
If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for ...
CECILIA MUNOZ
She felt that if you educated a woman, you educated a family.
CECILIA MRUK
If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.
CECILIA MUNOZ
Consider, O Lover, my throat
white as cigarette paper.

The crushed lavender of my kn...
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We don't want the Olympic Games becoming, let's say, a Formula-One event where sponsors are on cars,...
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She taught me an awful lot about the clouds.
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Jessica guffawed. “Well, almost every need. It will be every need when we walk in the door and the...
CECILIA AUBREY
I think, ultimately, this committee can report out a bill.
CECILIA MUNOZ
If we pass reforms that either pretend they're not here or pretend they'll go away, we're fooling ou...
CECILIA MUNOZ
The only way something gets through is on a bipartisan vote.
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We couldn't possibly support a proposal that says you can work here, but you can never be apart of o...
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And I was sent to the left.
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No I didn't. My parents were killed.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
CECILIA LONDON
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
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Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.
CECILIA ROTH
I just love to take pictures.
CECILIA ROTH
But it always came back to anger.
CECILIA GRAY
It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them...
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Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
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True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
Tr...
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In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't...
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I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing a...
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I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
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I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
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I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did n...
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I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.
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The Internet is amazing.
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Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I...
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