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I never know how much of what I say is true.

Bette Midler

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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Beats Important Off Pissed
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
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’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
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Intelligent People Shrinking
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
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
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Men Parent Pay
Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Country Cutting Parks

I never know how much of what I say is true.

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