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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Bette Midler

From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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Distance Men Ocean
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Cooking Life Perfect
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
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Growing Style Up Writing
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Media Sleep Way
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

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