Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.Ben Aaronovitch
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
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 -
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
Baz Luhrmann -
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Irvin S. Cobb -
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 -
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
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Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
Hermann Hesse -
To have lied is to have suffered.
Victor Hugo -
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 -
He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
Emily Dickinson -
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
Eugenio Derbez -
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
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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 -
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
Benjamin Britten -
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!'
Andy Cairns -
I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
Andrea Davis Pinkney -
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.
Garth Greenwell -
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Edward Gardner
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Though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.
Emma Willard -
If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.
Nadia Comaneci -
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman -
Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
Ben Aaronovitch