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The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I'm sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.

~Beverly Sills

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One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

~Bill Bryson

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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

~Bill Gates

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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

~Bill Gross

Topics: Brilliant Certainly Fund Get Gettin Good He Knew Manager Mutual Out Peter Respect

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Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

~Bill Keller

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The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Against Brilliant Disappointing Expectation First Improvement Like Literary Lives Measured Novel Often Second Seems Unfair Up

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I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Brilliant Fan Most Nearly Think Today Uncontrollable Who Writers I Think

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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

~Billy Wilder

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I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together.

~Bindi Irwin

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The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

~Bjarke Ingels

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