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" I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life. "

Goldie Hawn

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School

Home

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Father

Presbyterian

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" The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know. "

" I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it. "

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Think

Time

" My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct. "

" I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight. "

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" I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know. "

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You

Way

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Worse

Give

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