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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.

Bette Midler

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Bigger Life People
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
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
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
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
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
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 try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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 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
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
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle

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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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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