The Life of Rita Moreno

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She recently won a Peabody award to add to her Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony collection — making her the first Latina to achieve PEGOT status.  Get to know Rita Moreno.

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00:00I was told you had one minute and I thought, wait a minute, I'm a Puerto Rican, I can't

00:23even say hello in one minute.

00:47This is America, where everybody has roots almost somewhere else.

01:47I like the island, Manhattan, I know you do.

02:14You know, I'm lucky because I have so many careers.

02:40I have a cabaret act, I do concerts, I do television, I do theater, a lot of actors

02:48don't have those advantages because they just do one thing.

03:11I will teach dance again.

03:13It is a gift that I have withheld from the world far too long.

03:30It's hard to understand what people are going through, I don't think we can possibly put

03:36ourselves in their shoes.

03:58The secret to me, because a lot of people say to me, well, what's your secret?

04:02It's about persevering.

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