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Beverly Sills

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
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
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
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
It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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Important Love One Seemed
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
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
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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Brother Desire Men
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Feels Performer Sense Somersaults
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
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

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