Don’t get me started on critics.
BEVERLY SILLSIn youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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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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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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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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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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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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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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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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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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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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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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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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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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