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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.

Maria Callas

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
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
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
I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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Angel Children Myself Voice
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Change Music Myself Voice
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
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
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
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
I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Art Money Myself Work
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
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
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Fashion Leadership World
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

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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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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