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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
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
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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Children Ease Memorable
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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Believe Matter People
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
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
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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Committed Heavenly Sitting Think
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
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
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
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
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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Careers Long Voice
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
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
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
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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Dog Funny Running
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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Drama Pretty Science Sound
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 a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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Being Inspirational Strength Strong
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

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