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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I’d rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else’s.
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President Bush almost killed me.
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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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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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I 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.
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I don’t think you choose whether or not you’re gay.
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I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn’t been in two hundred years, and if America doesn’t stand up, we’re in big trouble.
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Without art there is no hope.
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I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
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I couldn’t imagine doing a show where I’d once again have to answer to corporate interests.
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I love to be able to support other women comics.
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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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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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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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It’s the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you’re able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.
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