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Theres no damn business like show business - you have to smile to

Theres no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up. – Billie Holiday

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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, youre out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, youre crazy. It can fix you so you cant play nothing or sing nothing. – Billie Holiday

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I cant stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it aint music, its close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. – Billie Holiday

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I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them. – Norman Cook

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Im really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and Im really sexy. – Serena Williams

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Ive had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out. – Serena Williams

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Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. Theres still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. – Cameron Diaz

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