LITTLE RICHARD
“I would like to thank God because she makes everything possible.”
HELEN REDDY
ANN REINKING
CRISTINA
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OTHELLA DALLAS
ADAM SCHLESINGER
SINGER, BORN 1941
“It’s crucial to know where the work stops and your life begins.”
DANCER, BORN 1949
“When that first photograph was taken of Earth from space and you saw this little ball in blackness … I became aware of what I felt I was. I feel very much that a tree is a relative, a cousin. Everything in this world, I find, I’m related to.”
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ANTHONY CHISHOLM
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
HELEN LAFRANCE
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ARTIST, BORN 1920
“I am totally a believer in the idea that style is a limitation of perception and understanding. And what I’ve tried in my life is to avoid style and find an essential reason for making things.”
DESIGNER, BORN 1929
“Dancing and singing is all I always wanted. Doing what you want makes you happy — and old.”
DANCER, BORN 1925
“I’m not conceited — I’m convinced.”
SINGER, BORN 1932
“In my opinion, the goal of music in a film is to convey what is not seen or heard in the dialogue.
It’s something abstract, coming from afar.”
COMPOSER, BORN 1928
“I have never had any support, I have not been encouraged by anyone, it is not in my character or the customs of my family. I made myself on my own, thanks to my work.”
CHRISTIANE EDA-PIERRE
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SINGER, BORN 1932
My life is in a turmoil My thighs are black and blue My sheets are stained so is my brain What’s a girl to do?
SINGER, BORN 1956
“I’d rather write about a high school prom or something than write about a midlife crisis, you know?”
SONGWRITER, BORN 1967
“I’m an actor. I can play a lizard, anything.
I’ve worked in ‘nontraditional’ theater. I did ‘Of Mice and Men.’ Played Slim. The great Joe Fields did a Willy Loman. We as actors want to act.”
ACTOR, BORN 1943
“Laughter is the answer to all the pain I experienced as a kid. When I’m not doing it, it all gets eerie and weird.
I am only left with the memories that inhabit me that can only be knocked out by hearing laughter.”
COMEDIAN, BORN 1927
“Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.”
COMPOSER, BORN 1933
“If I do something somebody likes, well, I’m satisfied because somebody liked what I did, but I don’t think it’s important.”
ARTIST, BORN 1919