Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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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.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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