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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

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
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 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
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
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
I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Anything Stretch Work
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 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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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
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
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight

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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