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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.

Beverly Sills

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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Important Love One Seemed
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
BEVERLY SILLS

Inspirational Motivational Positive
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
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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Art Environmental Perception
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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Being Inspirational Strength Strong
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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Whole Whole World World
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
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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Drama Pretty Science Sound
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
BEVERLY SILLS

Brother Desire Men
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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Careers Long Voice
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Feels Performer Sense Somersaults
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
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Art Direct Effect Indulge
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?
BEVERLY SILLS

Passion Simple Work
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
BEVERLY SILLS

Attachment Love Spiritual

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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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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