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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

Bette Midler

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want
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.
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Cooking Life Perfect
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Growing Style Up Writing
If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Assessment Land Party
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real

I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

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