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Opera Singer

Jessye Norman is an American opera singer renowned for her powerful voice and artistic expression. Born on September 15, 1945, she has been active on the international opera stage since the 1960s, performing in a wide range of classic opera roles.

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Thinking Persons Responsibility Talent

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“I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.”

I Can Particular Spells Affliction

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“I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.”

Kind Different Particular Limitation Range Different Kinds Different Kinds Of Music

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“I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.”

Walks Minutes Miles Huffing

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“I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.”

Want Exploring Keep Learning

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“I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.”

Want Done Song

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“It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.”

Men Stills Would Be Aggression Assertion

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“One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.”

Needs Talent Ambition Vocation

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“There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.”

World Political Social Issues Involved Committed Caring Political Issues

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“There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.”

Dream Spiritual Trouble Better Days No Anger

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“I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.”

Reading Support Communication Lessons Genuine Enjoyed Life Lesson Thread Correspondence Competitiveness Mahler Genuine Friendship

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“Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.”

Ifs Book Reading Kindness Wise Pages Welcome Prose Mary Visiting Swans Very Wise

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“I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!”

Littles Long Art Helping Light Spiritual Joy Universe Can Do Tunes Shed Joy Of Life

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“My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.”

Ifs Aria Trampolines

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“Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.”

People Needs Problem Balance Arise Relaxation Life Balance Balanced Life

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“As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range. I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.”

Way Kind Different Would Be Voice Particular Limitation Range Dramatic Different Kinds Different Kinds Of Music

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“The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.”

Ifs Persons Long Shows Happens Young Joy Voice Goes On Promise Singing Best Things Sheer Sheer Joy

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“If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Different Black Air Strange Limits Weather Black History Thumbs Way To Live Up In The Air Thumbs Up

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“Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.”

Comfortable Holes Pigeons

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“I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.”

Grateful Horizon I Am Grateful

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“I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.”

Love Heart Children Age Given Six Doctors Bags Plastic Toys Heart Beat Heart Beating Stethoscope

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About the Author

Born: September 15, 1945
Known for: Opera Singer
Quotes: 21

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