#pera

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#desperate #doing #easier #i #keep

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#funny #humor #opera #stabbed #funny

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#best #deterrent #excellence #how #i

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. ↗

— Edmund White

#confirm #desperately #excuse #i #identity

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#aspects #assumes #choice #edit #editing

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#differ #essentially #major #much #operate

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#any #because #entire #i #interested

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#accustomed #basis #behavior #beings #cooperate

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#different #different things #got #i #into

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#circumstances #desperate #help #me #out