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Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met. ”
As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece. ”
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. ”
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it. ”
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. ”
We're so used to seeing women in movies about a romance where they don't seem to have any inner fortitude. They're completely defined by their relationships, and it's hard to engage with those characters and relate to them. ”
My writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and I love studying girl friendships in particular because they seem defined by a combination of codependent intimacy and subtle, constant passive-aggressiveness. ”
I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it. ”
I love creating. I had been really into photography when I was in college. ”
I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use. ”