Beverly Sills Quotes

#1. I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. - Beverly Sills

Deborah Smith

#2. Don't get me started on critics.

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#3. I usually have to find something where I go, "I have to do this." Sometimes you don't even know what the question you're trying to answer is, but you go, "This is something I need to explore and want to explore, and it's inside me in a way that I think I can do a good job with."

John Lee Hancock

#4. Been chatting much with Jared?"
"We often have special moments where I come into a room and he immediately leaves," Kami said. "I treasure those times.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for ... unless it's contagious!

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#6. When you are in the family ... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Jacques Chirac

#7. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

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#8. 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.

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#9. There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

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#10. 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.

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#11. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Prov. 3:6)

Andy Stanley

#12. Art is the signature of civilizations.

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#13. ... for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Jane Austen

#14. 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.

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#15. We're all nerds because we're all too good at something

Care

#16. 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.

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#17. Catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves ... I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

Will Self

#18. I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

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#19. There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

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#20. 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.

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#21. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

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#22. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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#23. 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.

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#24. Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

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#25. My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.

Michael Franti

#26. When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

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#27. Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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#28. Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!

Diana Gabaldon

#29. Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

Tom Hollander

#30. 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.

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#31. I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

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#32. 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.

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#33. 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.

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

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

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#36. I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors.

Pearl Cleage

#37. Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.

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#38. The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago.

Gabriela M. Sanchez

#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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