If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
“It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.”
“The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.”