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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

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
BEVERLY SILLS

Fame Hype Superstar
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
BEVERLY SILLS

Getting Older Running Time
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 SILLS

Anxiety Boss Reality
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
BEVERLY SILLS

Evening Ruins Whole
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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Art Environmental Perception
I never share credit or desserts.
BEVERLY SILLS

Credit Dessert Share
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLS

Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
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
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
BEVERLY SILLS

Childhood Nuclear War
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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Acceptance Art Inspirational
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
BEVERLY SILLS

Attachment Love Spiritual
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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Drama Pretty Science Sound
It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
BEVERLY SILLS

Important Love One Seemed
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?
BEVERLY SILLS

Committed Heavenly Sitting Think
When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
BEVERLY SILLS

Feels Performer Sense Somersaults

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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