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Famous Quotes By Beverly Sills

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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening? — Beverly Sills

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As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual. — Beverly Sills

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I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. — Beverly Sills

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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. — Beverly Sills

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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills

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There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does. — Beverly Sills

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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar. — Beverly Sills

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. — Beverly Sills

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Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. — Beverly Sills

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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery. — Beverly Sills

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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. — Beverly Sills

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. — Beverly Sills

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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. — Beverly Sills

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When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish. — Beverly Sills

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There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. — Beverly Sills

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Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose. — Beverly Sills

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Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing. — Beverly Sills

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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still? — Beverly Sills

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I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores. — Beverly Sills

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You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for ... unless it's contagious! — Beverly Sills

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. — Beverly Sills

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Don't get me started on critics. — Beverly Sills

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Art is the signature of civilizations. — Beverly Sills

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Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time ... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound. — Beverly Sills

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. — Beverly Sills

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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. — Beverly Sills

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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. — Beverly Sills

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I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving. — Beverly Sills