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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Beverly Sills

I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
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Drama Pretty Science Sound
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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Cheerful People Thinking
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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Anxiety Boss Reality
When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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Whole Whole World World
When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Feels Performer Sense Somersaults
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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Art Environmental Perception
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn’t matter.
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Believe Matter People
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
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Art Direct Effect Indulge
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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Beautiful Drama Meaningful
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short

Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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