There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLSWhen you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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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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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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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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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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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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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 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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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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