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I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

Beverly Sills

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 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
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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Children Ease Memorable
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
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
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
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
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
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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Being Inspirational Strength Strong
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
There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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Fame Hype Superstar

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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