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.
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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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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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.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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