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I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.

— Gene Luen Yang

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

— Stephen Paulus

I first read 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' when I was a kid. And I think it was read to me. Me and my sister both had a copy and loved the books.

— Will Poulter

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.

— Rebecca Sugar

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

— David Harewood

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to buy after I turned in pop bottles for change. 'The Prince and the Pauper,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth.' Male narratives filled with adventure and self-discovery.

— Jewell Parker Rhodes

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

— Luciano Pavarotti

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

— Jaime Winstone

Opera is really fun.

— Renee Fleming

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

— Salman Rushdie