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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.

Bette Midler

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All Ecosystems Parts
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Lucky
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Macbeth Pairs
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Assessment Really
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
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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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
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Nerves
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,

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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Singing
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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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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Gay Rumor

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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