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I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories. -- Andrea Davis Pinkney
I'd like to direct more operas. -- Simon Callow
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. -- Werner Herzog
Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. -- Jennifer Garner
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. -- Method Man
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services. -- Franz Liszt
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. -- Camille Paglia
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas. -- Tommy Shaw
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered. -- Josh Duhamel
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt. -- Bayard Taylor
I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion. -- Donna Leon
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true. -- Andrea Bocelli
In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything. -- Andrea Bocelli
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform? -- Itay Talgam
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. -- Julian Fellowes
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung. -- John McCormack
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life. -- Ezra Miller
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another? -- David Byrne
To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. -- David Canary
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation. -- Karen DeCrow
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes. -- Stieg Larsson
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they're living in a soap opera. -- Graham Parker
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money. -- Peter Ackroyd
Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience. -- Dario Argento
As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera. -- Karen DeCrow
I want to do rock operas. -- Corey Feldman
I started in this business on soap operas. -- Lauren Holly
Soap operas got nothing on my family history. -- Kiersten White
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. -- Harrison Birtwistle
You have to think about the WWE as soap operas. -- Linda McMahon
The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas. -- Brian Swimme
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. -- Bob Edwards
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. -- Parker Posey
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. -- Harrison Birtwistle
My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world. -- Thalia
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders. -- Samuel Wilberforce
Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18. -- Lucy Griffiths
Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive! -- Julie Bowen
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals. -- Bruce Beresford
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire. -- Bruce Beresford
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody. -- Tod Machover
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so. -- Carlisle Floyd
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. -- Garth Greenwell
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. -- Rosamund Pike
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy. -- Ben Elton
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. -- Colin McGinn
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. -- Steven-Elliot Altman
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances. -- Bruce Beresford
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I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner. -- Ibn Warraq
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. -- Virgil Thomson
...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas... -- Ally Carter
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas. -- Julie Gonzalo
I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV. -- Terry Pratchett
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna. -- Giuseppe Verdi
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays. -- Rodney Stark
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long. -- Margot Asquith
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is. -- Carlisle Floyd
I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons. -- Wu Han
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered. -- Josh Duhamel
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered." -- Josh Duhamel
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera. -- Mark Twain
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative. -- Lea Salonga
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative." -- Lea Salonga
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing. -- Isaac Mizrahi
My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome. -- Ian Somerhalder
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas -- Omar Epps
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas. -- Omar Epps
I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas. -- Scott Adkins
I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television. -- Jerry Jones
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. -- Edith Wharton
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth. -- James A. Michener
I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on. -- Jane Wagner

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