You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
BEVERLY SILLSDon’t get me started on critics.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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 are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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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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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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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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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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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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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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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 don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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