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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.

Maria Callas

Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
MARIA CALLAS

Attitude Myself Rule Stay Talk
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
MARIA CALLAS

Appearance Change Myself Possession
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Beautiful Myself Opinion Voice
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Artist Born Stay Voice Yourself
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Children Force Law Performance Responsibility
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?
MARIA CALLAS

Life Live Respect Sensation Work 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.
MARIA CALLAS

Failure Heart Missing Music Point
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Difference End Goodness Greatness Student Teacher
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Angel Artist Judgement Myself Oneself Pretend Role Serious Woman
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Friendship Greatness Hands Man Ourselves Weapon Woman
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
MARIA CALLAS

Enemy Myself Understand
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
MARIA CALLAS

Feeling Love Myself Sing
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
MARIA CALLAS

Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
MARIA CALLAS

Appearance Loss Lost Myself Voice Weight
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
MARIA CALLAS

Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
Only my dogs will not betray me.
MARIA CALLAS

Betrayal Dog 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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