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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

Bette Midler

I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
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
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Effect Good Read Sensitive
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
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
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky

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