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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together."
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"My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters."

"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."

"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."

"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."

"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."

"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."

"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."

"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."
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