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“It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.”
“Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.”
| Wayne Allard, Politician (1943) |
| John Barbirolli, Musician (1899) |
| Steven Bauer, Actor (1956) |
| Maria Callas, Musician (1923) |
| Howard Finster, Artist (1916) |
| Alexander Haig, Public Servant (1924) |
| Julie Harris, Actress (1925) |
| Joey Adams, Comedian (1999) |
| Ferdinand Christian Baur, Theologian (1860) |
| Robertson Davies, Novelist (1995) |
| Marty Feldman, Comedian (1982) |
| Romain Gary, Novelist (1980) |
| Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic (2007) |
| Ivan Illich, Sociologist (2002) |
| Philip Larkin, Poet (1985) |