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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
"I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it."
"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."
"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
"There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention."
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