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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

Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage Yourself
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation 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
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
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
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
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
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
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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.
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Children Force Law Performance Responsibility
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
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Enemy Myself Stop
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Change Music Myself Voice

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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