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"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."
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"Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected."
"Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again."
"George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between."
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"Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match."
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"I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."
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