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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.

Maria Callas

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.
MARIA CALLAS

Beginning End Home Imagination Myself Start
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Live Money Trouble Window Work 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.
MARIA CALLAS

Difference End Goodness Greatness Student Teacher
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Friendship Greatness Hands Man Ourselves Weapon Woman
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
MARIA CALLAS

Enemy Myself Understand
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Advantage Drama Head Myself Poor Role
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
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Artist Born Stay Voice Yourself
It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
MARIA CALLAS

Life Side Terrible Thinking Yourself
I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
MARIA CALLAS

Art Money Myself Work
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
MARIA CALLAS

Failure Heart Missing Music Point
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
MARIA CALLAS

Fashion Leadership World
Love is so much better when you are not married.
MARIA CALLAS

Better Love Marriage Yourself
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Beautiful Myself Opinion Voice
I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
MARIA CALLAS

Angel Children Myself Voice
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
MARIA CALLAS

Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking

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