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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.

Bette Midler

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
Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Mean People Trying
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
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
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank
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
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Heaven Home World
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
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;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas

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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