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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

I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
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
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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Believe Matter People
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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Anxiety Boss Reality
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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Beautiful Drama Meaningful
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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Committed Heavenly Sitting Think
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
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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Fame Hype Superstar
When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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Whole Whole World World
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War

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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