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I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

Beverly Sills

Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
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
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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Careers Long Voice
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
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
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
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
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
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
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
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
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
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

I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

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