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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
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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Dog Funny Running
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?
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Passion Simple Work
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
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
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
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
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
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
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive

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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