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There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
Gloria Gaynor
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That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
Gloria Gaynor
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I had a fear of being alone.
Gloria Gaynor
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Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.
Gloria Gaynor
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Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.
Gloria Gaynor
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The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.
Gloria Gaynor
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God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.
Gloria Gaynor
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At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.
Gloria Gaynor
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All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.
Gloria Gaynor
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I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give
Gloria Gaynor
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When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.
Gloria Gaynor
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I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.
Gloria Gaynor
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People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
Gloria Gaynor
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Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
Gloria Gaynor
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I still love a variety of kinds of music.
Gloria Gaynor
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Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.
Gloria Gaynor
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My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.
Gloria Gaynor
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Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.
Gloria Gaynor
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I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character.
Gloria Gaynor
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Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.
Gloria Gaynor
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I think I sound like Barry White.
Gloria Gaynor
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Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.
Gloria Gaynor
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So you're back from outer space.
Gloria Gaynor
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I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.
Gloria Gaynor
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God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.
Gloria Gaynor
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I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.
Gloria Gaynor
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I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.
Gloria Gaynor
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Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.
Gloria Gaynor
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I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.
Gloria Gaynor
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I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.
Gloria Gaynor
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The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.
Gloria Gaynor
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Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.
Gloria Gaynor
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I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.
Gloria Gaynor
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One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
Gloria Gaynor
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I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.
Gloria Gaynor
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I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.
Gloria Gaynor
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Personally I prefer Gospel music.
Gloria Gaynor
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My look is always glitzy for New Year's Eve, even if I am at home.
Gloria Gaynor
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Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.
Gloria Gaynor
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Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!
Gloria Gaynor
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Actually I'm more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.
Gloria Gaynor
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First I have a collection of all of the albums I've ever done, on vax.
Gloria Gaynor
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I've written about one song on several different albums.
Gloria Gaynor
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Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.
Gloria Gaynor
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I started out doing covers.
Gloria Gaynor
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I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.
Gloria Gaynor
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People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.
Gloria Gaynor
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My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.
Gloria Gaynor
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The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.
Gloria Gaynor
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None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.
Gloria Gaynor
