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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
"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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"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world."
"I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die."
"Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home."
"I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second."
"The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough."
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