"I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame."
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"I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces."
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"We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are."
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"I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special."
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"I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable."
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"I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens."
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"[On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes."
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"My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things."
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"A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them."
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"I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men."
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"Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road."
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"I just don't have time to get old!"
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"I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha."
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"I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like."
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"Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate."
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"I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have."
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"I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day."
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"I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone."
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"I look like a woman, but I think like a man."
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"I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community."
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