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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.

Barbra Streisand

He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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Gay Mother Son
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Avocados Smell Taste
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Parent School Son
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Interesting Over Trust You
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Everything Know Learn Sure Want
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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Blue School Years
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Creative Stars Thinking
I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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Bulls Loss Red
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Baffled Issues Moving
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Agree Dating Same Tables
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Done Feelings Grown Son
I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing

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