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When 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'Donnell

It’s probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.
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Community Feelings Night
To 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.
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Adoption Giving Thinking
President Bush almost killed me.
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President President Bush
I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
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Height Inspiration Thinking
I think life is easier if you’re straight.
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Easier Life Thinking
Without art there is no hope.
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Art Country Hope No People Place
I think there’s no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.
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Math Thinking
And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual’s right to bear arms
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Arms Bears Second Amendment
I’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.
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Broken Heart Pain Someone Together
I’d rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else’s.
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Floats My Own Somebody Vision
Are you fat because you’re a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you’re fat?
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Fats Modern World
When 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.
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Hard Healthy Mirrors Work
The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn’t find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.
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Book Church School
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
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Burden Looks Odds Running
We really did. We got married.
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Aries Country Married People Place
I don’t think you choose whether or not you’re gay.
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Choose Gay Thinking You
If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco
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Country People Place Thinking
I 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.
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Mean Shells Thinking
I know I’m a really good mother. I know it. I’m a really good mother.
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Good Knows Mother Really
The 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.
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Television Two Years
I’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.
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Body Gone Rooms
I don’t like to go to premieres or openings. I don’t like to have to put on makeup.
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Makeup Opening Premieres
You can imagine in China it’s like: ‘Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!
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Racist Stupid Views
Culture 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.
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Art Everyday People
I 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.
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Children Different Dream Reality
Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
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Kids Lifetime Velvet
There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they’re allowed to be a parent.
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Biblical Heterosexual Parent People

When 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.

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