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Lesley Garrett

"It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that."

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Donna Grant

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

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Donna Grant

"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

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Donna Grant

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

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Donna Grant

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

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Donna Grant

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

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Donna Grant

"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."

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Donna Grant

"A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera."

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Donna Grant

"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

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Donna Grant

"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."

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Lesley Garrett
"I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses."

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Lesley Garrett
"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

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Lesley Garrett
"I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now."

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Lesley Garrett
"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is."

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Lesley Garrett
"I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again."

Hope

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Lesley Garrett
"I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard."

Music

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Lesley Garrett
"One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group."

Music

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Lesley Garrett
"It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that."

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Lesley Garrett
"Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices."

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Lesley Garrett
"There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career."

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