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It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.

Maria Callas

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
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Beginning End Home Imagination Myself Start
I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
MARIA CALLAS

Angel Children Myself Voice
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
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Advantage Drama Head Myself Poor Role
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
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
MARIA CALLAS

Feeling Love Myself Sing
First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
MARIA CALLAS

Appearance Loss Lost Myself Voice Weight
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 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
Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
MARIA CALLAS

Attitude Myself Rule Stay Talk
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
MARIA CALLAS

Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
MARIA CALLAS

Enemy Kill Myself
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
MARIA CALLAS

Expression Sing Transformation Yourself

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