A Quote by Gloria Gaynor
None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.
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None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.
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I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.
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No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.
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