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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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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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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When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.
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I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.
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So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life.
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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
