Joan Sutherland Theatre

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    “If I weren’t reasonably placid, I don’t think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you’ve got to be absolutely like a horse.”
    —Joan Sutherland (b. 1926)

    “General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.””
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)