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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

Bette Midler

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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Emotional Friends Kind
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking
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 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
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Flower Heart River
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Media Sleep Way
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
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
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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Age Culture Mother
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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Different People Way
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
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

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