Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
BEVERLY SILLSThe last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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I 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?
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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 is no short cut to a place worth going.
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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.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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I never share credit or desserts.
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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