"Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful."

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Night Quotes #World Quotes #Opera Quotes

“The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.”
“When I play, I make love â€“ it is the same thing.”
“I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.”

Source : Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.
“We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.”
“I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.”
“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.”

Source : Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.”
“We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.”

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