Pastoral Resources

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny.

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

I look upon pride as a sin.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

My father started me singing in church.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.