Elizabeth Swados Quotes
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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.
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Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
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I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.
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My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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It sparkles in the dim light of the room, and when he shakes it out, dust mingles with glitter.
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.
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Could I begin life again, knowing what I now know, and had money to invest, I would buy every foot of land on the Island of Manhattan.
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In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.
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The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.
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You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
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I will jump into most any role.
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Happiness is a state a mind, not a dress size.
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The world is an orphanage for grownups.
