some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites. — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse Copy Share Image
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better. — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
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… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“I have successfully avoided enjoying opera all my life. -quoted in Entertainment Weeky, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20548... ” — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration. — China Forbes Copy Share Image
I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy. — Jeff MacNelly Copy Share Image
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
I have an opera coach who I went to as a teenager, when I was 15 and 16 years old. When I… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little… — George Richard Marek Copy Share Image
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
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