Helen Reddy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.”
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“You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.”
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“If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.”
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“Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.”
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“Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.”
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“Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.”
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“To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.”
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“I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.”
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“I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.”
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“If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!”
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“I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.”
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“Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.”
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“Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.”
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“There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.”
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“My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.”
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“It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.”
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“I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.”
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“I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.”
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“I like music to soothe me.”
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“I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.”
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“I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.”
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“Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!”
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“Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.”
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“Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.”
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“The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.”
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“My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.”
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“It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.”
-- Helen Reddy
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