When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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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 don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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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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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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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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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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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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