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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.

Bette Midler

I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
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 always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
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
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
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
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
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele

You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.

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