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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and... →
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
'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... →
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the... →
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
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.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
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.
It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.
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