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.
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.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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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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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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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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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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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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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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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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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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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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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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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