Gloria Gaynor Quotes
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
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I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that blessed - I don't even remember when I started shaving.
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What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
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When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.
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People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
