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"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
"It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me."
"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."
"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."
"What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to."
"I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'"
"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
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