You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
BEVERLY SILLSYou may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
BEVERLY SILLSI can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
BEVERLY SILLSAttachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
BEVERLY SILLSIt seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
BEVERLY SILLSI 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.
BEVERLY SILLSThere are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
BEVERLY SILLSA 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.
BEVERLY SILLSWhen you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
BEVERLY SILLSMy 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 SILLSI 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?
BEVERLY SILLSThere is no short cut to a place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLSThere are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLSAs 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.
BEVERLY SILLSI 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?
BEVERLY SILLSI don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
BEVERLY SILLSWhy let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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