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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’

Bette Midler

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Funny Nice Wise
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
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
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self

I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’

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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’

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