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" I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song. "
Melissa Etheridge
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" There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. "
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" I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.' "
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" There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. "
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" I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.' "
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" My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else. "
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" Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. "
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" I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.' "
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" To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door. "
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" I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.' "
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" I have always loved Broadway. "
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" My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby. "
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" My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. "
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" I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. "
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" Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly. "
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" Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up. "
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" When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body. "
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" I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop. "
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" I would never say I had a bad childhood at all. "
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" I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine. "
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" When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting. "
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" Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. "
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" Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone. "
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" Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought. "
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" When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people. "
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" What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity. "
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" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "
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" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "
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" People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long. "
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