"In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse."
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"I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady."
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"I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is."
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"Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera."
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"Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)"
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry."
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"Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite."
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"You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree."
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"I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera."
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"It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me."
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"In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing."
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"I am a living soap opera."
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"I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby."
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"You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous."
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"I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me."
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"The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural."
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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it."
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"We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera."
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"I would love to sing opera."
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