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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
Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given. -- Tony Abbott
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
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
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. -- George S. Patton
Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. -- Morris Chestnut
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one. -- Dan Rather
I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake! -- Haley Webb
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
I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen Campbell is almost unbelievable. -- Jimmy Webb
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro. -- Artie Lange
The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake. -- Jennifer Ellison
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. -- Barbara Walters
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. -- Freeman Dyson
The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly. -- Nigel Cole
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. -- E. M. Forster
Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it. -- Diane Kruger
I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting. -- Kirsten Dunst
The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna. -- Dakota Blue Richards
My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid. -- Ksenia Solo
Vampires are such prima donnas, -- Magnus
We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas. -- Harry A. Blackmun
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette. -- Marie Dressler
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. -- Edward Robert Harrison
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. -- Queen Elizabeth II
E'stata reale prima di tutti noi. Siamo solo nati ottocento anni troppo tardi per poterla incontrare. -- Cecilia Randall
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.] -- Horace
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes. -- Andrew Harvey
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
A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations. -- Hosea Ballou
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur. -- Edward Albee
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina, -- Maria Tallchief
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
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. -- Thomas Nagel
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish. -- Peter Birks
The soufflÃ© 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

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