"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."

-- Carlisle Floyd

#Character Quotes #Opera Quotes #Vivid Quotes

“The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.”
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
“English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, QuÃ©bec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.”
“You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them”
“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.”

Source : "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.
“Itâ€™s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened”
“Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.”

Source : Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins
“Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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