You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
BEVERLY SILLSOpera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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I never share credit or desserts.
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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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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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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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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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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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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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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’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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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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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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