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When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?
Etta James
Tags: You People Me
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
Vivienne Westwood
Tags: You Things Little
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.


Oriana Fallaci
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I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.


Pam Grier
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I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.


Missy Elliott
Tags: Just Little Girl
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.
Josephine Baker
Tags: Sad People Me
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As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.


Denise Richards
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Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.


Reese Witherspoon
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane Goodall
Tags: Family Dreams Me
I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
Natalie Cole
Tags: You Really Up
I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
Taylor Spreitler
Tags: Me Because Really
Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.
Nicole Richie
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
Barbara Kruger
Tags: Design Me Think
I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever.
Cat Deeley
Tags: Good Always Very
My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
Paris Hilton
Tags: Mom Love Never
People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
Laurieann Gibson
When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.
Diane von Furstenberg
Tags: You People Think
I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
Salma Hayek
Tags: Me Who Life
I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
Lana Parrilla
Tags: Funny Mom Me
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
Helen McCrory
Tags: About Up Never