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" You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening. "
Elaine Stritch
Happening
You
Never
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" I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me. "
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" These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is. "
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" I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice. "
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" If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there. "
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" What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. "
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" I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that. "
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" As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times. "
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" You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie. "
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" I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired. "
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" I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that. "
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" I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy. "
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" When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill. "
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