There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
BEVERLY SILLSEverything 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.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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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 don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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 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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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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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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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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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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