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BEVERLY SILLSI 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?
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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 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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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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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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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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I never share credit or desserts.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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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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