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'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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I've done movies that have mostly feminine characters and elements, and I think that both 'Heathers' and 'Truth About Cats and Dogs' are, in their own weird ways - they're different ends of the girl movie spectrum, but they're very much centered around the female characters, and I like those movies, and I like working with good actresses.
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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.
