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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLS

Inspirational Motivational Positive
I know that anybody who does all this and doesn’t have to, everything thinks she’s very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can’t it be that simple?
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Passion Simple Work
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
BEVERLY SILLS

Blame Credit Inspirational
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
There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can’t.
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Careers Long Voice
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
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
I think it is! I don’t feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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Committed Heavenly Sitting Think
Art is the signature of civilizations.
BEVERLY SILLS

Acceptance Art Inspirational

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