I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. - Luciano Pavarotti
I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience. - Luciano Pavarotti
If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less. - Luciano Pavarotti
It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble. - Luciano Pavarotti
I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965. - Luciano Pavarotti
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life. - Luciano Pavarotti
Experience is the only teacher we have. we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth.
I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be. - Diana, Princess of Wales
I felt compelled to perform. Well, when I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. - Diana, Princess of Wales
The kindness and the affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods and always your love and affection have eased the journey. - Diana, Princess of Wales
Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It's stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I've ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!
Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.
I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn't ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.
I like it when a man puts thought into the kind of restaurant we're going to. That doesn't mean it needs to be fancy - some of the best meals of my life have been having a taco on a street corner.
I rarely saw my Grandma Markle, as she hailed from New Hampshire and spent much of her life in Pennsylvania and Florida. To bridge that gap, she would always send scrapbooks, care packages, and boxes of treats made from family recipes.
I started working at a soup kitchen in skid row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day, I felt really scared. I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed.
I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.
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