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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
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"I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years."

"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace."

"But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986)."
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"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."

"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."

"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."

"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."

"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."

"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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