Sopranos Quotes - Page 2

• John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

  Michael Imperioli

  Class, Acting, Firsts

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• Cancer don't respect nothing.

  David Chase

  Cancer

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• And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

  Ninette de Valois

  Ballerina

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• I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

  Michael De Luca

  Fans, Huge

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 26, 2008.

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• Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Wall, Glasses

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

  James Wolcott

  Men, Mad, Iconography

  "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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• I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.

  Peter Capaldi

  Eye, Years, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That sounds like Anthony Soprano. He has a point. I've said it before: if you're black and you sell dope, you end up in the big house; if you're white and you sell a large amount of dope, you end up visiting the White House. So it's a matter of race and it's a matter of scale, frankly.

  Don Winslow

  Dope, House, Black

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Powerful, War

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• My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Teacher, Sex, Motherhood

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.49, Milkweed Editions

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• My role on "The Sopranos" was so small and I only had one day of shooting. I had fun that day because I met Michael Imperioli, who is a friend of Johnny Ventimiglia, and Johnny and me are close friends.

  Meital Dohan

  Fun, One Day, Roles

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

  Michael Imperioli

  Thinking, Today, Coming Out

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• I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four years and not learn something. And just watching the way the show was done, and watching the way that David encouraged the imagination.

  Matthew Weiner

  Winter, Imagination, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.

  Linda Hirshman

  Winning, Lawyer, Moments

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• Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  "Exclusive: Nestor Carbonell Talks RINGER, LOST and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Pieces, Saxophone

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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

  Trying, Firsts, Saxophone

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• I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Want, Tvs

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• I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

  Walther Funk

  Musical, Type, Spots

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, - 2004 - Page 83, April 7, 1946.

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• If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

  Lucy Liu

  Ifs

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• We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.

  Cintra Wilson

  Boys, Speak No Evil, Wife

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• Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

  Rob Sheffield

  Memorable, Character, Long

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• 'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

  Rob Sheffield

  Character, Bored, Debt

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• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  Cara Buono

  Men, Mad, Secrecy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Voice, People

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