It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
MARIA CALLASDon’t come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can’t make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don’t like it shouldn’t come to hear me.
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What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.
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