As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It’s become a family ritual.
BEVERLY SILLSWhen you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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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.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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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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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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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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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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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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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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