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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.

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 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 will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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Angel Children Myself Voice
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 don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Art Money Myself Work
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
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Enemy Myself Stop
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
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
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage 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
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
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
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
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 will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Fashion Leadership World
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
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
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
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
I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
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Age Day Enjoyment Fools Friendship Happiness Live Maturity Myself Young
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
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
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself

I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.

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