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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.

Bette Midler

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
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
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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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Cities People Want
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Bigger Life People
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Life Love Romantic
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
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
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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Entertainment Life Smart
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 [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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