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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows."
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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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."
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"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
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"Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera."
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"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men."
Men
"When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god."
God
"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter."
Time
"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in."
Battle
"There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles."
Woman
"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time."
Time
"I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?"
Men
"Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack."
Movies
"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
Ballet
"The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it."
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