#pera

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#best #directing #experience #films #good

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#art #art form #attendance #ever #form

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#attained #endowed #energy #extremely #feet

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#desperately #hungry #material #now #scraping

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels! ↗

— John Irving

#love

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#babble #chatter #clarity #confusion #content

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#education #imperative #making #many #moral

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#business #loses #making #making money #money