"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that."
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"Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature."
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"Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive."
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"If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!"
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"I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more."
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"I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on."
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"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."
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"I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids."
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"Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time."
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"I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals."
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"They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple."
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"I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call."
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"I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale."
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"I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can."
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"Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it."
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"It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside."
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"I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom)."
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"I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast."
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"I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say."
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"I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke."
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