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All Quotes by author - Cyndi Lauper
" Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time. "
Me
Always
Life
" Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form. "
Me
Influence
Great
" Everything does go in a circle. "
Go
Circle
Does
" Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do. "
Long
You
Time
" God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with. "
Who
Worry
Sleep
" Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. "
Great
You
Serious
" I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car? "
Age
Car
Absolutely
" I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting. "
Sister
School
Band
" I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself. "
People
I Can
Myself
" I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side. "
Line
Women
Side
" I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be? "
Working
People
Never
" I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. "
Business
Good
Independence
" If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall. "
Beyond
Back
You
" If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me. "
You
Me
Recognize
" I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea. "
You
Energy
Feet
" I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever. "
Time
Thought
Path
" I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair. "
Color
Hair
Wig
" I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response. "
Rock
Jazz
Even
" I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. "
Chance
Out
Started
" I'm in the business where you get the business all the time. "
Get
You
Where
" I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot. "
Busy
Worry
Think
" I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else. "
Like
Never
Rivalry
" It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create. "
Create
Through
Streets
" I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. "
Always
Rhythm
Me
" I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head. "
Bad
You
Three
" I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony. "
Grammy
Emmy
Like
" I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could. "
Album
Never
Things
" I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like. "
Record
Song
Any
" Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. "
History
Reading
Makeup
" Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker. "
Mature
Grow
Think
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