Carol Quote by Gian Carlo Menotti

“One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'”

Gian Carlo Menotti

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It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it…

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God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

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It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much…

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People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

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At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.

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A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

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I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.

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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon…

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I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down…

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I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

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My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

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I loved 'Carol.' I thought it was a beautiful film.

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'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

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“Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently loose, the secret selves that these familiar persons hold inside them shake the room...An undercurrent of clowning and jostling is part of the process by…

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