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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

Bette Midler

I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Anything Stretch Work
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
[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
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
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
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
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
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
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

Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

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