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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."
Marriage
"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
Debate
"In real life, events seem much less dramatic."
Life
"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."
Honor
"A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood."
Blood
"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."
Creativity
"It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS."
Trust
"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."
Life
"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."
Crime
"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
Attention
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