Supposed Thoughts of Gypsy Rose Lee While Performing

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"Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today."
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"Will Saryan ever write a great play?"
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"I was reading Schopenhauer last night,
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And I think that Schopenhauer was right."

"I don't want to see Zorina."
"I don't want to meet Cobina."
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"I'm an intellectual."

"I don't like a deep contralto,
Or a man whose voice is alto."
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"I'm a heterosexual."

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"It took intellect to master my art."
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"Who the hell is Margie Hart?"

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"I consider Dali's painting passe."
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"Can they make the Metropolitan pay?"
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"English people don't say 'clerk', they say 'clark'".
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"Anybody who says 'clark' is a 'jark!'"

"I have read the great Cabala,
And I simply worship Allah."
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"I am just a mystic."

"I don't care for Whistler's mother,
Charlie's aunt, or Shubert's brother."
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"I'm misogynistic."

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"My intelligence is guiding my hand."
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"Who the hell is Sally Rand?"

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"Toscanini leads the greatest of bands."
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"Jergens Lotion does the trick for his hands."
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"Rip Van Winkle on the screen would be smart."
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"Tyrone Power will be cast in the part."

"I adore the great Confucius,
And the lines of luscious Lucius."
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"I am so ecletic."

"I don't care for either Mickey:
Mouse and Rooney make me sicky."
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"I'm a little hectic."

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"My artistic taste is classic and dear."
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"Who the hell‘s Lili St. Cyr?"

Zip from PAL JOEY
Music by Richard Rodgers;
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

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