Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
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A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
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We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.
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Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
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The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
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I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.
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I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
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Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.
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The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less.
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Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
