Opera Quotes - Page 15

• I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.

  Sandra Bullock

  Children, Memories, Parent

  "Sandra Bullock, Boxed In On The Set Of 'Gravity'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 4, 2013.

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• I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool.

  Justin Hartley

  Superhero, Fans, Different

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Jobs, People, Interesting

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Dad, Father, Actors

  "Jennifer Aniston: Screens Goddess". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2008.

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• The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new city to explore. You take a tram, visit the museums and operas and cafes.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Museums, Cities, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Heart, Choices, Racing

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• The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Soap, Novel

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That's why we began calling it the daily soap opera, or it's just the place on radio and TV where Democrat Party agenda is advanced. But it isn't media.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Media, Calling

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Watches, Half

  Source: www.karsmakers.nl

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• I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

  Philip Glass

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

  Philip Glass

  Mean, Names, Fifty

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Teenager, Holiday

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.

  Tod Machover

  Different, Done, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.

  Tod Machover

  Real, Journey, Roots

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

  Maurice Sendak

  Designer, Classical Music, Needed

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• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Musical, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Real, College, House

  "New Again: Sam Taylor-Johnson". Interview with David Furnish, Lauren Lieb, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2013.

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• I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Focus, Needs, Want

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I've tried to be vegetarian but I keep falling off the horse and, like, eating it'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

  Rufus Wainwright

  House, Earth, Royal

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• Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Night, World, Stressful

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• Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

  Rufus Wainwright

  Baby, Crazy, Destiny

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• For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, Curious, Garlands

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• I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, World, Fit

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• I became a set designer for opera.

  Maurice Sendak

  Designer

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