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"They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs."
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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."


"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."


"I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised."


"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."


"The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue."
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