#era

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#any #comes #curtain #disaster #down

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#commercial #else #everywhere #except #extraordinarily

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #channels #diversity #either #fragmentation

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#anyone #books #ever #heard #i

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#beginning #cell #could #effect #exactly

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment. ↗

— Eric Davis

#after #best #could #days #diagnosed

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#camera #favorite #favorite things #front #things

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#before #camera #each #exactly #fall

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. ↗

— Angela Davis

#black #certain #class #developed #division

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. ↗

— Angela Davis

#been #black #certain #certain extent #class