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Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.
Montserrat Caballe
Wonderful
Other
Colleagues
Prima
Course
Around
Younger
Many
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
Montserrat Caballe
Me
You
Impossible
Please
Say
Temperamental
Give
Give Me
Being
Then
Reason
Moment
If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.
Montserrat Caballe
Physically
Longer
Sing
Am
Exist
Impression
Cannot
Mean
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
Montserrat Caballe
Mother
Feeling
Intimacy
Magical
Voice
Sound
Truly
Effect
Listener
Which
Expresses
I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.
Montserrat Caballe
Music
Country
Most
Proud
Many
Awards
Received
I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?
Montserrat Caballe
Waiting
Down
Busy
Otherwise
Months
Like
Because
Very
Sitting
Move
Being
After
Realised
Room
Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.
Montserrat Caballe
Life
Music
Family
First
Important
Important Things
Real Life
Part
Real
Children
Things
Belong
I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.
Montserrat Caballe
Life
Music
Feel
Like
She
Person
Loves
Dedicated
Who
Whole
Her
First, love to the family. Second, love to career. Third, love to the audience.
Montserrat Caballe
Love
Family
First
First Love
Audience
Second
Career
Third
I have many that wants to, let's say, marry me. But I always tell my mother that the day I have to ask myself, 'I love this man?' means I don't love him.
Montserrat Caballe
Love
Myself
Day
Me
Man
Mother
Say
Tell
Marry
Him
Always
Wants
Ask
Means
Many
Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
Oona Chaplin
Myself
Good
Yourself
Every
Think
On-Screen
Saw
Cringe
Exceeded
Brutally
Weird
Hour
Like
Most
Looks
Said
Always
Friends
Expectations
Screen
Little
Shot
Even
Actually
Vintage
Watching
Honest
I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
Oona Chaplin
Love
Me
Hurt
Lost
Local
Would
London
Gym
Both
Box
Boxing
How
How Much
Hit
Done
Them
Realize
Much
Fights
Actually
Two
When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.
Oona Chaplin
Funny
Man
People
Walk
Old
Think
Chaplin
Say
Hat
People Say
Charlie
Charlie Chaplin
Guy
Bowler
Still
Moustache
Grandfather
Old Man
Who
Now
My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.
Oona Chaplin
Best
World
Dinner
Building
Everyone
London
Like
West
Friday
Gets
Often
Flat
Commune
Us
Cook
Grove
Evenings
My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
Oona Chaplin
Communication
Problem
Speak
Met
Once
Born
Only
Had
She
Died
Spanish
Grandmother
English
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Oona Chaplin
Me
You
People
Down
Jobs
Sexism
Objectification
Through
Never
Put
Know
Got
Auditions
Go
Lot
Gets
Any
Rooms
I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.
Oona Chaplin
Buy
Travel
Money
Enough
Enough Money
Able
Only
Tickets
Make
Children
Want
The Only Thing
Plane
Now
Thing
Things
I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
Oona Chaplin
Myself
Stage
Though
Pursue
Get
Did
Being
Loved
Acting
Acting Career
Career
People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
Oona Chaplin
Me
People
Walk
Job
Three
Year
Sense
Think
Humour
Interviews
Through
Auditions
Go
Get
May
Just
Room
Use
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals
Heart
Down
Paper
Melody
Never
Put
To retire is to begin to die.
Pablo Casals
Retire
Begin
Die
Music will save the world.
Pablo Casals
Music
World
Will
Save The World
Save
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso
You
Pure
Following
Finishes
Through
Volume
Clear
Likewise
Inevitably
Arrive
Reverse
Egg
Same
Form
Process
Successive
Search
Portrait
Start
Starting
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Pablo Picasso
Sugar
Bath
Dissolve
Everything
Miracle
Like
Does
Lump
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Truth
Art
Lie
Enables
Realize
Us
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
Life
Work
Seduction
Ultimate
Your
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