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ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

Maria Callas

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
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Fashion Leadership World
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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 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
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Change Music Myself Voice
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
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

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 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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