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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

George S. Patton

Successful Must Very Treated

I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

Aretha Franklin

Guess Ballerina Been Nurse

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.

Beauty Best Face Look

I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

Work Soul Rest Stage

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Me Business Turn Performing

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

Success You Nice Go

Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.

Face Intelligence Community Rejection

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.

You People Think Better

I don't like a lot of drama on the road - I don't like prima donnas.

Road Drama Like Lot

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.

Good Ideas Design Person

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.

Me Problems Never Back

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

Rufus Wainwright

Love Experience Song Opera

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

Heart Being Accomplish How

At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

Age Laugh Ideas Go

The point here is that I enjoyed singing. I enjoyed the rhythm of it. I grew up listening to Louis Prima, who was also rhythmic.

Singing Listening Rhythm Here

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.

Gift Looking Back Talent Looking

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

Attitude Me Never Always

Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.

Montserrat Caballe

Colleagues Wonderful Many Younger

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.

Name Country Say Run

If you put on the military uniform, you're a prima facie hero. Generals are the epitome of that. They're the ones who have been most successful at the soldier's trade.

Hero You Soldier Uniform

My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.

Michael Giacchino

Love Music Great Dad

I love Glenn Gould. Max Steiner. John Williams. Louis Prima. Benny Goodman. Miles Davis. John Philip Sousa.

Michael Giacchino

Love Miles I Love Max

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

Me Pictures Only

Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera.

Priyamvada Natarajan

Black Space Play Process

In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.

You Hate World Rest

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

Me Cake More Legs

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