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It was a big deal for this area to have an internationally renowned opera singer here.


Ralph Purvis

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JENNIFER DAMIANO I'm a fan of the opera and I was in there looking around, and I saw this beautiful and colorful cera...
BILLY WILLIAMS I'm a fan of the opera and I was in there looking around, and I saw this beautiful and colorful cera...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
MARIAH CAREY Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
MELINDA CLARKE I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would...
LESLEY MANVILLE I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in H...
ANDY GROVE My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
BLYTHE DANNER I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and lea...
BRYN TERFEL When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a huma...
EVE BEST To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
DANIELLE DE NIESE I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and...
BEVERLY SILLS Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
TONY CURTIS He's a singer. Opera, anything you need.
DAN COATS I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington...
KYLE MACLACHLAN I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY The Sather Clinic was renowned in this area. We aren't really doing justice to the Sather Clinic bec...
GABRIEL BRISBOIS I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't...
J. D. SOUTHER I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
EMMY ROSSUM My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. I was known as a singer songwriter be...
JIMMY CLIFF My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'S...
BENJAMIN BOOKER To win two no-hitters in a row was a big deal for us. We were tickled pink. It was like a carnival w...
BOB NUTILE The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of...
MARIA JERITZA A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hea...
JAMES FENTON This is a big deal. ... It's going to have a big impact on care for women.
FERGAL MALONE I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical si...
KATHERINE JENKINS If it were played 50 miles from here, it might not be that big of a deal. But to have a game like th...
JENNIFER LONG The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic tha...
PATTI SMITH Here in Green Bay, there's a terrific need. But this is an opportunity for me to do something intern...
LINDA LARSON It was just a big deal to play there because the Astrodome was a big deal.
BILLIE JEAN KING Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I...
ALEKSA PALLADINO Students are mostly put off by the sound of opera. But they are more open to it once we talk about w...
DAN GRABLE The fact that none of his family members was here was a big deal to me.
DEBRA KLAYMAN My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE But we do have some here, so it is an appropriate name in this area as well.
DALE CARSON An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to pe...
ANDREA BOCELLI It's a big deal. People have been anticipating this for a while.
JOSEPH SHATZ I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was...
J. D. SOUTHER We're ready to play, whether it's Purvis or anyone. But Purvis is a great way to start, with the tra...
LARRY DOLAN I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in...
ALLISON WILLIAMS I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a un...
DANIEL BARENBOIM We've been getting ready for sectionals, so the scores here aren't a big deal. In this meet, we have...
MASON STORM One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY This is a paint-by-numbers legacy for Ralph Klein. He doesn't want big monuments or parks named afte...
DON MARTIN That was a big deal for her, a big jump.
HOLLY VELOSO We are an eco-municipality here, and this is a tremendous chance for Wal-Mart to partner in an eco-m...
ED MONROE Here is this audience that is waiting to be plucked. They have a lot of money to spend, so they are ...
WENDY LIEBMANN In this area, SWIFT can also play a constructive role by introducing to Chinese banks the internatio...
LAZARO CAMPOS It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.
GLORIA STUART This is a big deal for Pakistan. If an exception is to be made for India, it should be made for Paki...
MICHAEL KREPON This is a very big deal for us because this is a big county in an important state that's often a lea...
ALAN CIAMPORCERO It was not a big deal.
JOE HODAS That's significant. We're not just tweaking around the edges here. This is a pretty big deal.
BECKY KELLEY This was a big swing game. Hopefully now we come out and win this game [today]. Now the worst we're ...
CURT SCHILLING It's definitely an accomplishment, but we can't settle on the win. We just look at it as a step towa...
CAPPIE PONDEXTER I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera si...
RENEE FLEMING It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, ...
CAMILA ALVES This was a big win for us. It was a good win for ourselves and for our fans. We're supposed to win e...
JIRI NOVOTNY My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES When he went down last year, it was a big deal for us, so we're happy he's back and doing an excelle...
MICHAEL PITTMAN Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE This is a very big deal for me emotionally, ... It really is my roots.
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JENNA MORASCA I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So...
CAB CALLOWAY Swimming was a big deal for us. It was sort of a bonding thing for my dad and I.
RON REAGAN A famously open gay singer-songwriter (told me) Luther was dying to have a boyfriend. It was an insi...
MICHAEL MUSTO This is a big deal for Colorado, and especially for Boulder.
SUSAN CONNELLY We're not a film location business at all. This was a one-time opportunity to enhance an area that w...
DAVID MOORE You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
IRVIN S. COBB It's still too early for an impact on New York City. If the strike is two days, it's really no big d...
EVAN ROURKE One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and cert...
JOYCE DIDONATO This was once a great program and a lot of great players have come through here. There's a lot of ta...
ANDY MESSERSMITH I want to thank God first of all for everything. This is a real big deal. It's an honor for me to be...
CLINT INGRAM I was thinking about cutting my hair right after the season. I knew if I came here it would be a big...
JOHNNY DAMON The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. ...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY We're getting to exercise what we have learned in a new area and this will make us better prepared i...
CARL LINDGREN This was a one-day deal. If immigrants decided to abandon their jobs for two weeks, that would defin...
RANDEL JOHNSON The person who really knows opera is going to enjoy it. And for people new to opera, this is a good ...
KATHY HOTCHNER This is a big win for us. Especially with three straight road games coming up. And it was a big deal...
ANTHONY FARMER Looks like it's not going to have a big impact for our area,
BOB COLLINS I lifted weights. But I never really even thought of it. I don't know if it was a real big deal at t...
JOE BLANDINO It was a big deal to persuade them to come to Florida.
LARRY PENDLETON It?s the best deal in this area, and you?re getting to play a Pete Dye course.
JEFF BLUMLING We've been here 37 years so it's a pretty big deal for us. It's pretty scary for a small business.
LOIS MARTIN An FTA with Korea would be a big deal for U.S. manufacturers.
JOHN ENGLER People say they would use Opera, if they wouldn't have to spend money to buy it. This gives them an ...
JON VON TETZCHNER This is an unusually short time for such a product to be on the market. But it was a very competitiv...
JAMES COTTON It hasn't been done since I've been here, so it's a big deal. To win the first Big 7 Conference titl...
GINA JOHNSON I think FEMA is stretched, but the response is good at this point. This storm did something very unp...
TODD HUNTER I call it the hidden supply or inventory. It remains to be seen how big a deal this [investor invent...
DAVID SEIDERS That’s insane! But then, we’re talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren’t ...
JENNIFER BOSWORTH It has certainly sent many negative signals not only here but internationally.
BEN DIOKNO It has certainly sent many negative signals not only here but internationally.
BENJAMIN DIOKNO It was a tremendous win for our kids and it's always a big deal around here when we beat Jasper. The...
DAN HOOKS It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.
DAVID ANAYA It was a big deal for us — all those corny things kids did in those days.
DAVID ANAYA We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was no...
CRAIG MUNDIE Every place Ralph owned was a success. The guy had a real touch when it came to this type of busines...
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RALPH FIENNES Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
RALPH ELLISON Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISON The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and...
RALPH ELLISON Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh...
RALPH ELLISON Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
RALPH ELLISON America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...
RALPH ELLISON I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might e...
RALPH ELLISON Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
RALPH ELLISON Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a ...
RALPH CUDWORTH The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at al...
RALPH CUDWORTH