I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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