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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

Bette Midler

Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
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
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
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
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
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 wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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Dance Fear Philosophy
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
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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Cities People Want
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
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 hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
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

I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

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