Edward Gardner Quotes
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Edward Gardner
Quotes to Explore
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You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.
Elizabeth Smart
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I've read until my eyes were bleeding. I don't know what more could be said. This is not a black-and-white issue.
Charles Edwards
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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).
Friedrich Nietzsche
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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
William Shakespeare
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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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There was all these old ladies and my mother she was one of them, and they were having you know, kind of a meeting, and she had said to them 'Oh I have a daughter, she can sings very well!' So it was very embarrassing for me.
Marie Fredriksson
Roxette
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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.
Freddie Mercury
Queen
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Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star
Hugh Anthony Cregg III
Clover
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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.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Albert Camus
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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
