I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
BEVERLY SILLSThere is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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 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 Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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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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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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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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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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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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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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