A Quote by Toni Morrison

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

Toni Morrison

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Convinced Each Each One Like Ohio People Performance Prima Reason Seasons Theatrical World

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Toni Morrison
American - Novelist
February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019

There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.

Rufus Wainwright

Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet.

Morris Chestnut

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

Mauro Ranallo

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

William Wyler

I am not a prima donna. It's just that I feel cold on the bench.

Toni Kukoc

The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.

Irma S. Rombauer

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Rufus Wainwright

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Rufus Wainwright

I've never had any prima donna attitude against me. It's always been very respectful.

Rey Mysterio

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

Jerry Leiber

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

Giuseppe Verdi

There were radio shows where you actually got to hear people play off of each other and get that immediate magic that goes on. And rather than doing what a lot of shows do, where an individual comes in, reads their part, and you edit it together later on and try to build a performance, we're lucky because this is really very much a theatrical performance that is going on, every single week.

Jeph Loeb

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Rufus Wainwright

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

Marie Dressler

I don't want to be in a locker room with someone that we draft that's kind of a prima donna or, you know, thinks they're bigger than the team. Those are two things that I don't do well with.