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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.

Maria Callas

I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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Angel Children Myself Voice
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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Friendship Greatness Hands Man Ourselves Weapon Woman
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage Yourself
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
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
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 want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
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Angel Artist Judgement Myself Oneself Pretend Role Serious Woman
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
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Fashion Leadership World
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Appearance Change Myself Possession
I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
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Age Day Enjoyment Fools Friendship Happiness Live Maturity Myself Young
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 don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Art Money Myself Work
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 cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Change Music Myself Voice
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Enemy Myself Stop
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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Children Force Law Performance Responsibility
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
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
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
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
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself

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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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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