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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

We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
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
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Flower Heart River
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
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
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
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
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
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

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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