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

Maria Callas

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
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
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
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 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 prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don’t like it shouldn’t come to hear me.
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Beautiful Myself Opinion Voice
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
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
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
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
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
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
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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

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

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