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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
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I'm as American as Chevrolet.
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