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

Maria Callas

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation
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.
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Artist Born Stay Voice Yourself
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
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
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
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Enemy Myself Stop
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
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Betrayal Dog Myself
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Appearance Change Myself Possession
On stage, I am in the dark.
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Darkness Myself
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
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
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?
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Life Live Respect Sensation Work Yourself
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 want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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Angel Children Myself Voice
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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Children Force Law Performance Responsibility
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
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
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Enemy Myself Understand
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
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
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 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

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