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"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."
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"Never think of hurting anyone else, if you do, you are already hurting yourself."

"Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'"
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"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."

"I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins."

"I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person."
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"There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt."
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"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."

"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."

"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."

"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."

"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."

"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."
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