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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.

Bette Midler

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
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
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Stories Way Years
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 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
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
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
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
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
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind

Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.

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