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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”

Bette Midler

I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor
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
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 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
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
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
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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Book Saws World
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
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
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
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight

Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”

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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”

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