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en As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. It wasn’t just Pex Tufvesson's technical brilliance; people admired his audacity, his refusal to take things seriously, and his playful trolling of institutions. As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

en Years ago, I had a wonderful relationship with the doorman in my building, who would always stop and talk to me after I came in from the opera. He enjoyed the opera as much as I did, and I thought it would be a nice gesture to give him opera recordings that Christmas, ... When I gave them to him, he looked completely confused -- and our relationship was never the same afterward.

en The ads are provocative. The public agency could not do this, ... We're trying to get a message from people who have done (meth), teenager to teenager.

en What you want to do here is study a problem that has been studied and studied and studied to death.

en [There are also the operas. This semester, the Opera Theater of Yale College highlights Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera] Les Marnelles de Tiresias, ... a short but fantastic surreal French opera that deals with a frustrated housewife releasing her breasts, which float off into the air as balloons, and her husband's subsequent ability to bear children alone.

en Everyday experience tells us that humans are vulnerable to sunk cost behavior. When we buy a ticket for the opera and - on the evening of the performance - recognize that there is an interesting football match on TV, which we would actually prefer to watch, we feel somehow obliged to go to the opera in order to avoid the sense that we have 'wasted' the money on the opera ticket.

en Actually, we were ducking under the rail. We knew those (left-handed) hitters couldn't catch up to his fastball, and we didn't want to catch one in the teeth.

en The only bad thing about the spring is that it seems like that every time I was about to catch him, it seems like something would happen and I couldn't catch him. I want to make him understand that I'm there 100 percent behind and I want to be there behind the plate when he's pitching.

en You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
  Irvin S. Cobb

en I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure.

en Teens are so sensitive to judging, ... Even if you call girls at their school names because they're sexually active, or if you say that certain boys make decisions that are stupid, the teenager will wonder, 'What do you think about me? What will you say about me?' And what you never want to do is create a situation where the teenager won't feel comfortable coming to when you they need you.

en 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.

en The win we received was a blessing from God. We studied their game, but we couldn't stop them like we wanted to.

en I couldn't tell you how much I studied these guys over the last two weeks. It's disappointing we didn't win the game. But I'm going to keep trying, that's all I can say.

en OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word
_simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.

The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.
  Ambrose Bierce


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