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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.

Maria Callas

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Enemy Myself Stop
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
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Life Side Terrible Thinking Yourself
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can’t see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.
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Advantage Drama Head Myself Poor Role
First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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Appearance Loss Lost Myself Voice Weight
Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don’t like it shouldn’t come to hear me.
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Beautiful Myself Opinion Voice
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Fashion Leadership World
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
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Artist Born Stay Voice Yourself
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
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Enemy Kill Myself
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
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Beginning End Home Imagination Myself Start
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Change Music Myself Voice
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they’re only made of sand.
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Care Friendship Reality Yourself
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Art Money Myself Work
Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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Attitude Myself Rule Stay Talk
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
Don’t come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can’t make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.
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Live Money Trouble Window Work Yourself
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage Yourself
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.
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Difference End Goodness Greatness Student Teacher
The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
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Monster Myself Public Return
What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
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Life Live Respect Sensation Work Yourself
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Appearance Change Myself Possession

When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.

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