In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
BETTE MIDLERWhen 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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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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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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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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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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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