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?
BEVERLY SILLSAttachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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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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’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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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 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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Don’t get me started on critics.
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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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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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