#operas

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels! ↗

— John Irving

#love

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#come #ideas #matter #musical #musical ideas

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

#diminishing #discovered #get #going #great

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

#dollars #get #go #life #operas

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive! ↗

— Julie Bowen

#hollywood #operas #people #soap #soap operas

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

#attitude #beats #fundamental #hip-hop #i

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

#american #europe #hear #here #i

Anybody watch General Clinic yesterday,” Vivian asked. “I had to work the lunch shift.” “Ooh, yeah,” Darlene said. “‘Fraid it doesn’t look good for Emile. It’s all that Mona’s fault. He wanted a private marriage and she wouldn’t listen.” At this, Vivian got a sad look in her eyes. Her mother had raised her on General Clinic. Her mother herself had been a faithful viewer for most of her life, ever since it was first aired. Instead of growing up on the stories of her mother’s childhood, Vivian was raised on bedtime summaries of past episodes of General Clinic, mostly from the 1970’s episodes, the so-called ‘stagnant years,’ highly underrated in her mother’s opinion. For 39 years her mother watched that show. Then she died. It happened just the way Aubrey murdered her son’s babysitter in the April 3, 1971 episode. What was the coincidence of that? Vivian thought about the irony of fate. Now she would be a victim of the very same unlikely probability. If only Emile would pull through…she might have a chance to hope. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #soap-operas #faith

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

#comic #comic books #definitely #eight #i

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#operas #pieces #theatre #very #works