#ear

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#deprived #early #early age #ghetto #girl

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#i #i can #life #live #lot

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#beyond #books #conquer #discovered #farm

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#authentic self #become #being #could #done

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. ↗

— Debra Winger

#age #appropriate #find #hope #i

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world. ↗

— Debra Winger

#eat #going #i #just #learn

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls. ↗

— Debra Winger

#match #outfits #tend #walls #wear

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? ↗

— Debra Winger

#actual experience #afraid #after #because #choice

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. ↗

— Kip Winger

#head #hone #i #mastery #music

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it. ↗

— Kip Winger

#album #back #band #because #better