Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.
CECILIA ROTH 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...
CECILIA BARTOLI Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.
CECILIA ZALKIND On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend ...
CECILIA ZALKIND We certainly support his nomination. I think he's a great choice.
CECILIA ZALKIND While these southern counties do have some small cities, a lot of the poverty that infects child wel...
CECILIA ZALKIND It's frustrating to know we have this incredible opportunity for kids [that] we're already beginning...
CECILIA ZALKIND Over half a million children live in families that struggle to pay the rent and put food on the tabl...
CECILIA ZALKIND This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.
CECILIA ZALKIND I think there was a sense that children's services needed to be a greater priority and that organizi...
CECILIA ZALKIND I'm so proud of him it's unbelievable.
CECILIA RODHE This is a dream come true for him. We're so proud.
CECILIA RODHE I wouldn't miss it for the world.
CECILIA RODHE When you are in a team situation, it's never comfortable. Everybody has to put energy in what's happ...
CECILIA RODHE It's a wonderful decision. I applaud all of them.
CECILIA RODHE He likes to share his energy. That has always been his way of communicating. He's in a very protecte...
CECILIA RODHE 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.
CECILIA MUNOZ Cardinal Mahony speaking out unleashed something really big. He, the church, made this issue public ...
CECILIA MUNOZ We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.
CECILIA MUNOZ That one fact is why people are not coming through legal channels.
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothi...
CECILIA MUNOZ Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conf...
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million [undocumented immigrants] living and working in the United States. This bill ul...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is not something to be playing politics with. The lives of millions of people are at stake here...
CECILIA MUNOZ They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.
CECILIA JOHNSON Our senior class thought this was going to go away. Our juniors now know. They are getting very conc...
CECILIA JOHNSON The principals are in full support of this.
CECILIA JOHNSON We (she and her husband) made the commitment to join Our Lady Queen of Peace and help the Brazilian ...
CECILIA JOHNSON What immigrants feel immediately is isolation.
CECILIA JOHNSON It's been very useful for those students who are shy and may not participate in face-to-face classro...
CECILIA JOHNSON We feel the online program is comparable to a face-to-face setting because teachers write the curric...
CECILIA JOHNSON It's a big deal. If you're living with the pain and numbness, it's a big deal.
CECILIA FARLEY I just kind of gradually was able to lift more within two weeks very little pain and of course a sma...
CECILIA FARLEY 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...
CECILIA FARLEY These three fingers would go numb. It would go into the thumb. Intense. Intense pain. Right here to ...
CECILIA FARLEY Once I did interviews with her family and got all of the medical information that I needed, I starte...
CECILIA CARROLL I finally went home to my country three years ago. There is so much poverty there and so many kids n...
CECILIA CARROLL She has been staying with me since April 4. It's been working out good. It's better for them because...
CECILIA CARROLL It's for the kids. It's like you are giving a new life to a child.
CECILIA CARROLL I would love if she could get donations to maybe go to Disney World or something before she leaves, ...
CECILIA CARROLL A lot of people donate their miles. The Rotary only pays for hospitalization, the operation and medi...
CECILIA CARROLL The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give...
CECILIA BARTOLI Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
CECILIA BARTOLI "The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decid...
CECILIA BARTOLI The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy...
CECILIA BARTOLI 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...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI 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.
CECILIA BARTOLI The point of adoption is to create a new family with all the rights and responsibilities that go wit...
CECILIA ZALKIND I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's...
CECILIA BARTOLI I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all ...
CECILIA MUNOZ I don't want to say the career is my prince, because I want a real prince. I feel it's a little like...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building...
CECILIA BARTOLI I was surprised to learn that Gluck spent some months in Prague at the time when we know operas by V...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think at least God said hello to me. I was lucky, lucky to have the voice, but also lucky to have ...
CECILIA BARTOLI She was very accomplished and this was before the feminist movement.
CECILIA MRUK We are calling on leadership on both sides of the aisle to get back to it. The life of millions of p...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordin...
CECILIA MUNOZ When I suggested a Vivaldi disc [in the late 90s], it was difficult to convince them to do it. But i...
CECILIA BARTOLI 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 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...
CECILIA BARTOLI I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI 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...
CECILIA LLOMPART 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 We don't want the Olympic Games becoming, let's say, a Formula-One event where sponsors are on cars,...
CECILIA GANDINI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for i...
CECILIA BARTOLI She taught me an awful lot about the clouds.
CECILIA MRUK Jessica guffawed. “Well, almost every need. It will be every need when we walk in the door and the...
CECILIA AUBREY It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and buil...
CECILIA BARTOLI 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.
CECILIA MUNOZ We couldn't possibly support a proposal that says you can work here, but you can never be apart of o...
CECILIA MUNOZ It doesn't really deal with why people are migrating or why our economy is so dependent on their lab...
CECILIA MUNOZ And I was sent to the left.
CECILIA ETKIN My memories. I still have nightmares, just screamed in my dream. About a year ago, I had a dream, th...
CECILIA ETKIN No I didn't. My parents were killed.
CECILIA ETKIN I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI
"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 Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I...
CECILIA RANDELL The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine ...
CECILIA BARTOLI 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...
CECILIA LONDON 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 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...
CECILIA VINESSE Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
Tr...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing a...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her ...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wa...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did n...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON The Internet is amazing.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which ...
VERONICA ROTH It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an ...
VERONICA ROTH Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they...
VERONICA ROTH I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why...
VERONICA ROTH I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure...
VERONICA ROTH I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed ...
VERONICA ROTH I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each ot...
VERONICA ROTH I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
VERONICA ROTH I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look dow...
VERONICA ROTH When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that&#...
VERONICA ROTH I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think ...
VERONICA ROTH I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not ans...
VERONICA ROTH If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
VERONICA ROTH People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I...
VERONICA ROTH When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And...
VERONICA ROTH 'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to ...
VERONICA ROTH There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways...
VERONICA ROTH I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possibl...
VERONICA ROTH Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed ...
VERONICA ROTH Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
VERONICA ROTH Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy&#...
ELI ROTH As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi w...
ELI ROTH I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and peop...
VERONICA ROTH Human reason can excuse any evil.
VERONICA ROTH A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...
PHILIP ROTH A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un...
PHILIP ROTH It's not unlike how we develop any of our stories on our athletes. It's a pretty collaborative effor...
ADAM ROTH You know, I feel complete. I don't feel like a part of me is missing. I just feel perfect.
ADAM ROTH That's going to change, and a big part of that change will be the Interstate 355 expansion, schedule...
ADAM ROTH That's going to change, and a big part of that change will be the Interstate 355 expansion scheduled...
ADAM ROTH Will County is a global transportation center.
ADAM ROTH This isn't just about core runners. This is about all athletes of all levels of competition and shap...
ADAM ROTH Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH To get, give.
BOB ROTH It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful b...
KELLYN ROTH We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for anothe...
VERONICA ROTH Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. ...
VERONICA ROTH But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's al...
VERONICA ROTH No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something ...
VERONICA ROTH I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where o...
VERONICA ROTH We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important...
VERONICA ROTH ...there is power in self-sacrifice.
VERONICA ROTH The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, the...
VERONICA ROTH A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."
His Mother says: "Why did yo...
VERONICA ROTH I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
VERONICA ROTH Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up ...
VERONICA ROTH Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
VERONICA ROTH Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH Lies require commitment.
VERONICA ROTH I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my b...
VERONICA ROTH A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTH For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “...
VERONICA ROTH I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
VERONICA ROTH I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, for...
VERONICA ROTH Some things are hard to let go of.
VERONICA ROTH Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up
VERONICA ROTH Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice ...
VERONICA ROTH Can you be a girl for a few seconds?"
"I'm always a girl" I frown.
"You know what I mean. ...
VERONICA ROTH When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her ha...
VERONICA ROTH There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...
VERONICA ROTH You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re tr...
VERONICA ROTH We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst...
VERONICA ROTH What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear m...
VERONICA ROTH Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and ho...
VERONICA ROTH I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...
VERONICA ROTH Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or t...
VERONICA ROTH I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and l...
VERONICA ROTH I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH