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Watching people just look out for themselves, i think, is extremely interesting. it goes right back to something like 'the beggar's opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

-Peter Mullan

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Watching People Just Look Out For Themselves,

Peter Mullan

Watching people just look out for themselves, i think, is extremely interesting. it goes right back to something like 'the beggar's opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

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Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "there's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "oh oh oh, i am dyin', oh i am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what i'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "beer! beer! beer! beer! i like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. that's basically all of opera, reely.

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by king kid. in a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an american than his parents. americans regard children as what mr. hudson in upstairs, downstairs called betters. aping their betters, american adults do their best to turn themselves into children. puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. if there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? there goes your music. there goes your culture. there goes everything new that would pop out. and in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. we’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. my parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. and i also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, i was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! a beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! the beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

I was going to be a singer. if i hadn't been in my profession, i was going to be an opera singer. that's from a young kid. i had all these records from all those famous opera singers. i wanted to be an opera singer - that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank god.

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