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opra Quotes and Quotations
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I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother. Danny Aiello | top
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There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art. Danny Aiello | top
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Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him. Billy Bush | top
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I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad. Margaret Carlson | top
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The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.' George Clooney | top
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Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed. Phil Donahue | top
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Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself. Lesley Garrett | top
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Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle. Genevieve Gorder | top
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Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer. Genevieve Gorder | top
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I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. Steve Lacy | top
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I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. Steve Lacy | top
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Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first. Steve Lacy | top
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The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity. Steve Lacy | top
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The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano. Steve Lacy | top
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If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. Lucy Liu | top
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I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show. Matthew McGrory | top
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I really wanted to be an opera soprano. Maureen O'Hara | top
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I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again. Joe Pantoliano | top
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I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself. Robert B. Parker | top
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that. Victoria Principal | top
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You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so! Jerome Richardson | top
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I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence. Andrew Shue | top
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Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? Kevin Spacey | top
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I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. Jo Stafford | top
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And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. Ninette de Valois | top
