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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.

Bette Midler

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
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
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
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Assessment Land Party
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
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’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Careers People Want
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
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
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married

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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