She asked me to be serious – said it put her off if I laughed.

她要我严肃一点–说如果我大笑会让她分心。

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I also decided that if I said something stupid and other people laughed at me, then so be it.

我还决定，如果我说了一些愚蠢的话，别人嘲笑我，那就这样吧。

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I laughed and said, "It can't be that bad."

我笑着说：“没有那么糟糕。”

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"Do you remember how Germont laughed when I said the mystery was difficult for him to solve because it was so simple?"

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People laugh at me when I say that, but they laughed at me when I said I wanted to be singer, and I'm a singer now.

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' I said, 'Yes' and they laughed and said, 'No, you are his widow.

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And everybody in the dressing room laughed and I said, well, I'm Patti Austin and I'm a singer too.

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