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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.

Bette Midler

If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound 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
The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Heaven Home World
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
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
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
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
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
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
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
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

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