"When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people."

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"It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way."

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"I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie."

Mother, Day, Play

"I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun."

Sun,

"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much."

Time, People, Babies, Boys

"The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on."

Challenge, Film, Right

"No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person."

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"Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board."

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"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."

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"I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot."

Thought, Friend, Years

"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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