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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

Bette Midler

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
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
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Effect Good Read Sensitive
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
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Stories Way Years
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
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
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
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World

When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

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