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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

Maria Callas

To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation 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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Achievement Feeling Generosity Happiness Home Hope Life Music Myself Purpose
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
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Fashion Leadership World
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Appearance Change Myself Possession
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
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
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
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
I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Art Money Myself Work
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
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
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
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
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
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
The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
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Monster Myself Public Return
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Change Music Myself Voice
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
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
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
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
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
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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Enemy Kill Myself
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand

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