Beverly Sills Quotes
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.
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I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
