Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
ROSIE O'DONNELLEvery kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI’d rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else’s.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI’d always admired writers. I’d always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.
ROSIE O'DONNELLAnd it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual’s right to bear arms
ROSIE O'DONNELLCulture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI’d love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, ‘This one’s gone!’ while he puts a sheet on me.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI couldn’t imagine doing a show where I’d once again have to answer to corporate interests.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.
ROSIE O'DONNELLTo give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.
ROSIE O'DONNELLAre you fat because you’re a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you’re fat?
ROSIE O'DONNELLThe hope for me going back into television – after doing what will have been two years of radio – is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.
ROSIE O'DONNELLPresident Bush almost killed me.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI think that that’s always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I’m not complaining about, but it’s just different than the reality you dreamed.
ROSIE O'DONNELLWhen someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, “This is who you are. You’re okay in this lady, and you’re a great, healthy, lovable and loving person.” I try to accept myself.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI know I’m a really good mother. I know it. I’m a really good mother.
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