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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 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
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
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
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
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
When I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
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Boobs Eras Hair Skinny Straight
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
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 feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
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
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
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’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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Mama Roles Rose

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