There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
BEVERLY SILLSOpera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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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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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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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 execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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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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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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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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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’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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