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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.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
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
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
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
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
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
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
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
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
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
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
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
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

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