I never share credit or desserts.
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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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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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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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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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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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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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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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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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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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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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.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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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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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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As 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.
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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 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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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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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 don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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