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"First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
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"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
Enemy
"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."
Rules
"I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."
Dignity
"I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged."
Artist
"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art."
Art
"Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."
Teachers
"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there."
Artist
"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point."
Music
"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house."
Life
"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility."
Age
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