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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."

"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."

"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

"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."

"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."

"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."

"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."
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"If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you."

"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."

"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
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