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

Maria Callas

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
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
MARIA CALLAS

Monster Myself Public Return
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Care Friendship Reality Yourself
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
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
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
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
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
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
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 when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
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 my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Enemy Myself Stop
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
MARIA CALLAS

Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
MARIA CALLAS

Art Money Myself Work

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