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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.

Bette Midler

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
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Energy Music Performers
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
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
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Art Cancer Light
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
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
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
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
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
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
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People

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