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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
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"I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds."

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

"My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later."

"They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession."

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"I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings."
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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."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

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"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."

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"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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