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I had to want to lose weight myself.
Nell Carter / Singer
Weight
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No one teaches you how to be graceful.
Nell Carter / Singer
Graceful
Teaches
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One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.
Nell Carter / Singer
Bad Review
Destroy
Hurts
Review
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I decided after my last divorce to marry myself.
Nell Carter / Singer
Divorce
Marry
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Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.
Nell Carter / Singer
Mean
Rich
Maintain
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New York is a good city for not having to get fat.
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Fat
Good City New
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When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.
Nell Carter / Singer
Denied
Diabetes
Firsts
Found
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You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
Nell Carter / Singer
Faces
Who You Are
Pretend
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I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.
Nell Carter / Singer
Complaining
Complaints
Disease
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I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man.
Nell Carter / Singer
Distance
Best Man Me
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If I'm with someone for too long, I begin feeling trapped.
Nell Carter / Singer
Trapped
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Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.
Nell Carter / Singer
Chance
Los Angeles
Performers
Angeles
Los
Sing
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For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.
Nell Carter / Singer
Me Better Feel
Bach
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I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.
Nell Carter / Singer
Good Wife
Good Marriage Wife
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I'm not very kind about marriage. I will never get married again.
Nell Carter / Singer
Get Married
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You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.
Nell Carter / Singer
Hours
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Whenever I work, I'm never really happy. I'm always second-guessing.
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Whenever
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Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.
Nell Carter / Singer
Broadway
Excitement
Immediacy
Miss
Theaters
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All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.
Nell Carter / Singer
Limit
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I have my own definition of God, but I believe God is whatever you want Him to be.
Nell Carter / Singer
God Believe I Believe
Definition
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I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
Nell Carter / Singer
Cold Weather
Weather
Jewish
Look Always Back
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I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
Nell Carter / Singer
Kids
Teacher
Children
Show Business
Weirdo
Teachers
Nurses
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No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.
Nell Carter / Singer
Thrilling
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I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.
Nell Carter / Singer
Judaism
Presbyterian
Converted
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'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.
Nell Carter / Singer
Happy
Break
Ran
Six
Years
Freedom Money Me
Make
Dreamed
Gave
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I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
Nell Carter / Singer
Wish
Create
Laugh
Sing
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I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.
Nell Carter / Singer
Caught
Glad
Rough
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I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?
Nell Carter / Singer
Marriage
Disease
Dresses
Thinking
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Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
Nell Carter / Singer
Medicine
Normal
People
Sticks
Diabetic
Feared
Needle
Stick
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I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.
Nell Carter / Singer
Forgiveness
Cry
Beg
Near
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I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college.
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College
Deserve
Eight
Heritage
Nine
Anyone
Did
Through
Denies
Finish
Maid
Put
She
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I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.
Nell Carter / Singer
Alive
Laughter
Depressed
Moment
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There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.
Nell Carter / Singer
Conductor
Orchestra
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I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.
Nell Carter / Singer
Love Time Food
Behaving
Gaining
Secondary
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Of all the unhappiness I went through, you must know I wouldn't live a moment of my life differently for what I have now. Would I do it all again? I wouldn't want to, but if it got me to the same place, yeah, I'd do it. Because I realize now that God would not give more than I could handle.
Nell Carter / Singer
Handle
Unhappiness
Yeah
Life God Me
Again
Life God Moment
Moment
Realize
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