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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

Maria Callas

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
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
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
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
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
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
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Appearance Change Myself Possession
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
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 the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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Fashion Leadership World
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness 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
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

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