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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
Adam Johnson
Life
You
Youth
People
Rest
Secondary
Aptitude
Kim
Characters
Jobs
Written
Towards
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Korea
Opposite
Fisherman
Dictated
North
North Korea
Just
Story
Whether
Regime
Certain
Your
Farmer
Measured
Million
Million People
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
Aleksa Palladino
Life
Mom
Family
Parents
Other
Everyone
Way
Both
Both My Parents
Never
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Any
Artist
Any Other Way
Process
Painters
Shown
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.
Amanda Eliasch
Music
Me
Mother
Tell
Would
Record
Classical
Classical Music
Only
Pianist
Put
Liked
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Concert
Concert Pianist
Off
Listen
Turn
Grandmother
Pop
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
Andy Grove
Hungary
Nice
Teenager
Out
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Era
Up
Fantasy
Cut
Growing
Growing Up
My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical piece of music.
Bakermat
Music
Mom
Every
Classical
Classical Music
Know
Piece
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
She
Heard
Did
My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'
Benjamin Booker
Time
Sister
Along
Like
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
She
Yelling
Up
Going
Just
Grew
Whole
Her
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
Blythe Danner
Family
Parents
Musical
Brother
Both
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Very
Sang
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Service
You
Old
Secular
Young
Rich
Our
Way
Find
Religious
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Democrats
Operator
Audience
Common
Legislator
Common Ground
Whether
Republicans
Customer
Customer Service
Poor
Ground
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
Danielle de Niese
Since
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Eight
Wanted
Successful
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
Diane Kruger
Christmas
Peace
One-Night
About
Never
Football
Excited
Takes
Opera
Dead
French
Opera Singer
Singer
Make
Am
German
Germans
Scottish
Trying
Quite
Famous
Story
Place
Which
Bury
Really
Eve
Play
Play Football
Night
Christmas Eve
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
Emmy Rossum
Myself
Training
Consider
Though
Classical
Had
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
Eve Best
You
Noise
Human Being
Incredible
Volume
Beyond
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Coming
Hearing
Up
Close
Human
Being
Belief
I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
George Gaynes
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Left
Acting
Reasons
My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance with Deep Purple was something I'll never forget. All elements were working brilliantly.
Ian Gillan
Church
Uncle
First
Jazz
Musician
Something
Purple
Never
Never Forget
Performance
Soprano
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Boy
Were
Forget
Working
Choir
Jazz Musician
Deep
Deep Purple
Elements
Brilliantly
I've played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn't make me a footballer. And I've sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn't make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I'm not going to make a career out of it.
Ian Gillan
Best
Me
Out
Tell
Sung
Write
Football
Footballer
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Make
Greatest
Duet
George
Going
Story
Lived
Ever
Played
Career
I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
Jennifer Damiano
Think
Something
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
Lesley Manville
Music
Path
Would
Followed
Classical
Classical Music
Voice
Exceptional
Had
True
Talent
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Up
Ended
Being
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
Maria Jeritza
Great
Singing
Every
Dramatic
Lies
Physical
Case
Demands
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Makes
Exertion
Real
Role
Modern
Much
Acting
Her
Nearly
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
Melinda Clarke
Light
More
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Lounge
Much
Really
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
Renee Fleming
Say
Constantly
Classical
Pushed
Ideal
Toward
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Mode
Being
Means
European
Reject
I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.
Sondra Radvanovsky
Too
Know
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Actor
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.
Tika Sumpter
Mom
Family
Gave
Opera
Sing
Also
Opera Singer
Singer
She
How
Up
Sisters
Taught
Her
Raise
Career
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
Tony Curtis
Song
Out
Able
Like
Opera
Sing
Opera Singer
Singer
Am
Paint
My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.
Jose Jose
Me
Father
Enter
Tried
Constantly
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Artistic
Persuade
Who
Career
I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in Yorkshire, so I went onto the club circuit.
Jane McDonald
Class
Opportunities
Club
Living
Circuit
Onto
Had
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Make
Were
Yorkshire
Wanted
Ethic
Working
Working-Class
Many
My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.
Hildur Gudnadottir
Mother
Father
Clarinet
Composer
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Conductor
Player
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