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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.

Bette Midler

There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Snow Spring Winter
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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Thinking Two War
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
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 want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
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
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

I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.

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