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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.