It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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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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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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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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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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