In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
BETTE MIDLERThe inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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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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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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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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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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