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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.

Bette Midler

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
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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Art Listening Moving
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
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
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’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money

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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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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