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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

Bette Midler

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.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Stories Way Years
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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Entertainment Life Smart
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Brain Play Random
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Careers People Want
hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

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