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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?

Bernadette Peters

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Kids Pasta Sauce
I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.
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Dear God Miss Missing Years
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there’s great truth in the songs, and that’s what was so wonderful to find.
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Oscars Song Wonderful
In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
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Careers Challenges Gay Woman
I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
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Enchanted Evening Favorites Loved
I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!
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Careers Great Music Roles
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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Persons Sondheim Thinking
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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Inspirational Needs Positivity
I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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Drink Meat Much Red Stay Sun
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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Mama Roles Rose
Animals speak with pure affection. It’s important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
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Animal Giving Home Important Up
I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He’s as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he’s had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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Great Manager Thinking Way Years
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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Challenge Film Moving
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men’s Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
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Gay Knowing Men Money Race

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