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" I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do. "

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" My first book was an open letter to my three daughters. "

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" I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh. "

" I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.' "

" If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all. "

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