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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

~Adele

Topics: About Any Been Cold Curtain Day Ever Every Every Day Fifteen Had Here Just Like Literally Never Onstage Over Over It Paris Problems Properly Pulled Radio Show Since Singing Sixteen Someone Sore Sung Throat Through Voice While

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Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.

~Angela Lansbury

Topics: Believe Buses Curtain Every Every Night Go Like Love Loves Me New New York Night Opens Out Race Side York You Yours

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Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

~Angie Stone

Topics: About Curtain Folk Give Hungry Least Like Million Need People Records Sells Show Smaller Somebody Until Us Wait Why

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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

~Anne Enright

Topics: Books Closed Computer Covered Curtain Face Hitting Light Room Small Stop Wall Window Write

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You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

~Aubrey O'Day

Topics: Curtain Day End End Of The Day Entertainment Just Know You

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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Attempts Curtain Deep Early Effect England Enormous Green Had Me North Onto Rejected South Stories Successful Were

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It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

~Ben Brantley

Topics: Actor Any Anywhere Backstage Basement Before Broadway Church Curtain Experiences Feel Goes Imagine Intense Mean Near Nervousness Nowhere Play Up I Feel

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Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.

~Benny Blanco

Topics: Art Back Curtain Expect Find Her Know Never Peel Person Real Real Person Studio You

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Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.

~Bethany Mclean

Topics: About Back Before Bit Curtain Enron Lot More Naive Out People Practices Pulled Things Think Turned Way Were Widespread Worked I Think

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I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

~Beverly Sills

Topics: Always Because Begin Curtain First Here Needed Person Theater Time Up Wait

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