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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
Cyndi Lauper
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Cyndi Lauper
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 22
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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