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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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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"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."
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"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."
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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"
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"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
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"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."
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"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."
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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."
Singing

"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror."
Trust

"It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman."
Dream

"We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities."
Family

"The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough."
Truth

"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."
Hollywood
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