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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
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To let a fool kiss you is bad...To let a kiss fool you is worse. 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
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I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
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Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.
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I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
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If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
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My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
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Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you was the first thing that hit my head. Good morning my darling.
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If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
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Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!
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Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?
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Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
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I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
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When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.
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I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
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People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.
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You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.
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I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
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On daughter Liza Minnelli I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
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Audiences have kept me alive.