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.
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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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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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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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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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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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 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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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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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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Don’t get me started on critics.
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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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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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