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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

Maria Callas

Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
MARIA CALLAS

Attitude Myself Rule Stay Talk
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
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 my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Enemy Myself Stop
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
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
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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Angel Children Myself Voice
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
MARIA CALLAS

Fashion Leadership World
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
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 will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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
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
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
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 the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

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