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Beverly Sills

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn’t matter.
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Believe Matter People
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
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 music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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Beautiful Drama Meaningful
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
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
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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Cheerful People Thinking
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
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
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
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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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.
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Art Environmental Perception

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