On stage, I am in the dark.
MARIA CALLASI prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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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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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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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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Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
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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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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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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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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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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
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ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
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