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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

Bette Midler

That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
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
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
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 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
Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Life Love Romantic
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Enough Foundation Great Lay
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
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Certain Kind Wanted

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