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"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."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
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"Music heals all forms of misery."
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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible."
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"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
Opera
"In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire."
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"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."
Art
"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."
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"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."
Work
"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
Music
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
Film
"When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen."
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"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."
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