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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.

Bette Midler

I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
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 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
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Bigger Life People
You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Mean People Trying
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Life Love Romantic
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
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People

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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