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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.

Bette Midler

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?
BETTE MIDLER

Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
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
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Art Cancer Light
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.
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Horse Struggle Trying
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
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love 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 can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake

I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.

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