Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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 only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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