Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: July 7, 1911 - February 1, 2007

Topics

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I feel like I've got the best job in the world. I just feel so fortunate to get paid to be a kid and play with my friends. So if it's rough or a little bit hot, you just have to deal with that.

Joel Kinnaman

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You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

Joel Silver

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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

John Jay

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Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco

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I don't really like going out for dinner. It's way better to not have to wait for food... It's quite boring. I don't cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I'm more of a transferer than a cook.

Suki Waterhouse

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Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

Russ Feingold

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I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

Michelle Dockery

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I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.

Mikko Hypponen

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I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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We live in a nation where corporations are people.

Lizz Winstead

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Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.

Diane Ackerman

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Flint is to the lead issue what Three Mile Island was to nuclear power. People are stepping back and thinking, 'There still is lead in my home?'

Dick Durbin

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