“Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.” Quote by Melanie Fiona
“Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.” HardWantedPerformingPerformers Author:Melanie Fiona
“Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.” ParentCitiesImmigrantsTorontoMulticultural Author:Melanie Fiona
“West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.” PerfectBalanceWestIndianMentalityAmerican LifePerfect Balance Author:Melanie Fiona
“Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.” WantFirstsMadeVoiceSingersHoustonWhitney Author:Melanie Fiona
“Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.” LevelsBabyHigherStressHigher LevelChildcare Author:Mem Fox
“I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.” PeopleIfsKnowsChildrenWeek Author:Mem Fox
“There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.” IfsWayReasonWould BeSufferingForceCausesAnimalDogDevelopmentBillionsRationalFactorsMeatGlobal WarmingIllegalFactoriesFluSwineOverabundanceCauses Of Global Warming Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.” ThinkingCountrySometimesMissingAttraction Author:Mem Fox
“I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.” ThinkingLittlesFacesAnimalDivineBabyFavouriteGorgeousJoeyPossums Author:Mem Fox
“I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.” WorldChildrenHomeAustralian Author:Mem Fox