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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.

Bette Midler

I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
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
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
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 want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Doors Ideas Stars
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
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Media Sleep Way
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent 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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