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Love is so much better when you are not married.

Maria Callas

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
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
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
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
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
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
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
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
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
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
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
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Change Music Myself Voice
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

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