Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
BEVERLY SILLSYou may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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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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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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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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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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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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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Don’t get me started on critics.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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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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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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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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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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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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