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Bette Midler

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
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
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
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
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 think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
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 Good Life Really
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 Thinking
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
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish

Total contentment is only for cows.

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