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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

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
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
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
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
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
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

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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