Soap Operas Quotes - Page 2

• Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

  Erica Jong

  Love, Song, Good Life

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

  Parker Posey

  Watches, Veins, Normalcy

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• I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

  Parker Posey

  School, Acting, Done

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Drama, Book, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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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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• The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

  Edward Abbey

  Speaks Out, Shopping, Rivers

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.172, Macmillan

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• I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

  Bruce Campbell

  Character, Opera, Littles

  "Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless Talk Burn Notice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

  Kate Winslet

  Tabloids, Opera, Stuff

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, California, Southern

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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, Opera, Soap

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

  Camille Paglia

  Quality, Opera, Soap

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• I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Romance, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

  Joan Collins

  Respect, Actors, Opera

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• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  Brandon Mull

  Fun, Book, Grandma

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• I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

  Joyce Maynard

  Thinking, Opera, Soap

  "Joyce Maynard: Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Home, Character

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

  Ally Carter

  Grandma, Character, Opera

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

  Timothy Dalton

  Book, Memorable, Wind

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• My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

  Claire Danes

  Opera, Want, Soap

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• If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

  Judy Garland

  Humor, Advice, Trying

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

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• I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

  Jennifer Garner

  Baseball, Thinking, Games

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

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• ''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Mother, Grandma

  "Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You". Book by Ally Carter, April 1, 2006.

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• Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

  Michael Zaslow

  Thinking, Opera, Soap

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• Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Reality, Gone, World

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