It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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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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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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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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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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