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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

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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
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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Art Domination Moments Oneself People Thinking Voice
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
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
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
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
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
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
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.
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Achievement Feeling Generosity Happiness Home Hope Life Music Myself Purpose
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Appearance Change Myself Possession
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage Yourself
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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Failure Heart Missing Music Point

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