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The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

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Madonna Ciccone
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 16
Actor
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Director
Entrepreneur
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Bay City
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Madonna Louise Ciccone
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
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I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something.
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I believe women should own their sexuality and sexual expression.
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I have to get way more vocal and become a little bit less mysterious.
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I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome
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I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.
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I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.
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I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces.
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I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.
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The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do.
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I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
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A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.
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I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.
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Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?
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I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.
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Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it.
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The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.
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I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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