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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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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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'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
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Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.
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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.
