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I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. — Garth Greenwell

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. — Laurell K. Hamilton

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders. — Samuel Wilberforce

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. — Bob Edwards

I'd like to direct more operas. — Simon Callow

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone. — Gilbert Gottfried

I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody. — Tod Machover

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. — Camille Paglia

I started in this business on soap operas. — Lauren Holly

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18. — Lucy Griffiths

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is. — Carlisle Floyd

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire. — Bruce Beresford

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna. — Giuseppe Verdi

I am a living soap opera. — Virginia Graham

I spend my days watching soap operas, eating bonbons and plotting society's downfall. — Tana French

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. — Robert Wilson

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals. — Bruce Beresford

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services. — Franz Liszt

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. — Virgil Thomson

Soap operas got nothing on my family history. — Kiersten White

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas. — Brian Swimme

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world. — Thalia

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels! — John Irving

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. — Harrison Birtwistle

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day. — Catherine Mary Stewart

For reality's glow and glory, without poetry,
Fade, like the red operas of sunset — Delmore Schwartz

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. — Steven-Elliot Altman

I want to do rock operas. — Corey Feldman

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. — Method Man

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner. — Ibn Warraq

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. — Jennifer Garner

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. — Rosamund Pike

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. — Parker Posey

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers. — John Eaton

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives. — Charlotte Rae

You have to think about the WWE as soap operas. — Linda McMahon

Giovanni always had music running through his head. Moments he experienced in life recalled for him scenes from operas. [Giovanni Tempesta] — Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. — Harrison Birtwistle

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. — Colin McGinn

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive! — Julie Bowen

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature. — Henry David Thoreau

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so. — Carlisle Floyd

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas. — Tommy Shaw