Quotes of: Soap-opera Keyword

Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap-like a piece of ancient kitchen soap that had got worn to the shape of her hand, but which had been dropped to the floor so many times it was never quite free of its bits of cind...

The Paying Guests

Sure, I'd love to be on primetime, but if I'm blessed enough to be picked up by another soap, thank God! It's so hard out there. And when you're not working, you feel horrible. You don't know when you'll get the next job. You don't know how long the ...

Lindsay Hartley

...TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered available for chores: take out the trash, clean your room, pick up that m...

Libraries of Minnesota

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Selected Operas and Plays

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up.

Robert Englund

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

Baz Luhrmann

True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectiv...

Zola Jesus

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are mo...

Mark Twain

Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.

The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a ve...

Dario Argento

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell.

Simon McBurney

The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is ...

Lea Salonga

My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, called 'White Raven.' That was a very confusing and trippy creation tale, and I was a kid who brought up the sun and rotated the earth. It was very emp...

Ezra Miller

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

Carlisle Floyd

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Charles Nelson Reilly