James Fenton Quotes

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

James Fenton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 25, 1949

Topics

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In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

Angela Ahrendts

LifeOpportunityCreativeSparkWant

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

Jeanne Moreau

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I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.

Michael Gove

ParentsFriendsLoseIncomeSeen

You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at you and say, 'Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?' Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.

Ronnie James Dio

LifeLiveYourselfPeopleMeThink

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

Mary Berry

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The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that I write best and think best in between those two masks.

Mike O'Malley

LiveBestThinkMaskFeelComedy

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

Michael Reagan

MyselfBuildOthersProtectBarriers

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Monica Lewinsky

MyselfMomPresidentMoreThanThen

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.

Chris Cornell

WorldLegacyStartRestImpactYou

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Bruce Davison

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

MindNothingOwnSacredYourExcept

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Anne Enright

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