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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Bette Midler

The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running
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
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
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 parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Men Parent Pay
Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Mean People Trying
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
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
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Childhood Dream Thinking
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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