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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you

Bette Midler

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
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
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
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
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
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
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
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
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
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
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 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
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Brain Play Random
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
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
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Depression Eating Speak
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
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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