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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…

Beverly Sills

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
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
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
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
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
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
There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
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
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
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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Careers Long Voice
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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Important Love One Seemed
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War

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