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" When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life. "
Cyndi Lauper
Lot
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Now
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" Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. "
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" Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker. "
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" You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine. "
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" You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway. "
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" I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot. "
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" I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony. "
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" The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time. "
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" Everything does go in a circle. "
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" 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. "
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" I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could. "
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" There have been great things that happened to me. "
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" The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone. "
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" I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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