Beverly Sills Quotes

At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it.

Beverly Sills

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1929 - July 2, 2007

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GirlExperienceBeginningThought

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

John Burroughs

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I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Jenna Bush

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Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it.

John Madden

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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

Ann Macbeth

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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Andy Warhol

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When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

Solomon Ortiz

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robert Frost

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In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

Minka Kelly

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Everyone deserves to laugh for at least 30 minutes, and 'Ballers' gives you that.

Jazmyn Simon

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I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.

Diane Farr

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I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.

Debbie Reynolds

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It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.

Brian De Palma

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