Helen Reddy Quotes

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Helen Reddy

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 25, 1941

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'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

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I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

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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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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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I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

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Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

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I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

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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 think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

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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.

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Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

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I like music to soothe me.

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I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

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I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

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You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

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Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

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Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

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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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