In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
BEVERLY SILLSThere is no short cut to a place worth going.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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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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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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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.
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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.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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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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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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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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