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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 hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
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
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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Beats Important Off Pissed
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Brutal People Previously Today
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
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
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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

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