Pat Benatar Quotes
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I really like performing for people.
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
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I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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People know what they love … Even those whose lives are floundering. If they're directionless, it's not because they lack knowledge of what they want. It's because they lack the courage to acknowledge that they want it.
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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.
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'You look older, son.''Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.'
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I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.
