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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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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.

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
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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.

  

  William Devane
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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.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Feelings
  • Deal
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• Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Sorrows
  • Suffered
  • Recurred

• 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.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
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  • Opera
  • Expensive Group

• To have lied is to have suffered.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffered
  • Lied

• In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Marriage
  • Result
  • Suffered

• 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.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Art
  • Childhood
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Death
  • Injustice
  • Suffered

• I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Man
  • Suffered

• He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Suffered
  • Doom

• My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • America
  • Acting
  • Because

• 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.

  

  Stewart Copeland The Police
  • Job
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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.

  

  Darren Lynn Bousman
  • People
  • Film
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• I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

  

  Benjamin Britten
  • Music
  • Opera

• Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Done
  • Years

• I knew Elizabeth Taylor when she didn't know where her next husband was coming from.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • She
  • Husband
  • Elizabeth Taylor

• 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.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Devil

• Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Night
  • Voice
  • Sweet

• Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Suffered
  • Opera
  • Indignity