Susanna Phillips Quotes
Preparing a lieder recital is quite different to me than preparing an operatic role. In an opera you are one of many striving to tell a story.

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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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This opera has got that, but it's got a huge range of other amazing lyrical moments, for the chorus, the orchestra and the soloists. It's the variety of the music in it that is almost the hardest thing about conducting it.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.
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Preparing a lieder recital is quite different to me than preparing an operatic role. In an opera you are one of many striving to tell a story.