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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Bette Midler

Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
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
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
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
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
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
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
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
I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Intelligent People Shrinking

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

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