Beverly Sills Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.
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Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
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As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
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I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.
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It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
