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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Bette Midler

My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
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
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
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
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
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
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
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying 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

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

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