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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

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
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
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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Bread Sliced Thinking
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
Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Assessment Good Life Really
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
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
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
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
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
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
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul

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