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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

Bette Midler

It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Doors Ideas Stars
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
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
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
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
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
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice

I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

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