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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.

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
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
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
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
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
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
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
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
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
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
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 are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny

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