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

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
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
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
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
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
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
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
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
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion 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
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound

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

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