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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know 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."

"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

"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."

"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
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"I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why."

"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time."

"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."

"The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men."
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