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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.

Bette Midler

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
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
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Couple Sex
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
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
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor

It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.

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