I'm Working My Way Toward

I Feel Like A Million Tonight - But One At A Time.

Through Books And Photographs, I Saw A World That Was Not My Own - And I Realized That There Was Another World.

My Parents Used To Park Us Kids At The Public Library In Downtown Honolulu Every Saturday. They'd Leave Us There At 8 A.m. And Pick Us Up At 4 P.m. - So Between Those Hours, You'd Better Find Something To Do! I Sat Upstairs In The Picture Room And Went Through Opera, Ballet, And Theater Books. I Loved The Photographs Of People Wearing Elaborate Makeup And Costumes - They Really Pulled At Me Inside. I Was In That Library Every Week For Years, Until I Was About 13. I Had A Rich Interior Life, Because I Didn't Have Much Of A Social Life.

Life Is Like Cooking Your Masterpiece Recipe. You Have To Get The Right Ingredients,have The Right Mixture And The Right Cooking Time To Reveal The Perfect And Delicious Taste Of Your Craft.

The First Time I Saw A Picture Of [fabled Actress] Ethel Barrymore - She Was On Broadway And She Was Wearing Pearls. I Thought, "that's Who I Should Grow Up To Be." It's Odd, Because It Was Her Physical Image That I Wanted; I Had No Idea What It Was Like Actually To Be Her. In Those Days, We Weren't Bombarded By Images The Way We Are Now, And The Ones We Did Have Were More Vivid In People's Minds.