It’s amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don’t want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
ELIZABETH TAYLORActing is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn’t be more real. Some people don’t like to look at it in the face because it’s painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.
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Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.
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I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head – wherever the music took me. My body followed.
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I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.
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Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other.
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I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.
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Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it’s the most accessible luxury.
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Marriage is a great institution.
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I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.
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Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn’t be more real. Some people don’t like to look at it in the face because it’s painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.
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Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
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The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.
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The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.
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I’ve always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.
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Big girls need big diamonds.
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If it is not to make the world better what is money for?
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