#classic

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#between #call #classical #contemporary #feeling

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#buildings #classical #contrast #like #medieval

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#classical training #consider #had #i #myself

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #dirt #i #jazz

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#actor #because #business #classically #go

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#chops #classical #classical guitar #did #getting

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#bully #classic #first #like #make

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#anything #better #classical #else #general

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. ↗

— Frances McDormand

#always #been #classical #debt #depression

There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and trouble, having almost a grotesque, certainly a pathetic, appearance in such a jaunty situation. In a true view, perhaps, there was more to be gathered and told of each anxious and experienced one, to whom the years were drawing nigh when she should say, 'I have no pleasure in them', than of her juvenile comrades. But let the elder be passed over here for those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#age