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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

There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
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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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
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
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Country Cutting Parks
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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Grow Up Mother People
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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Different People Way
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Snow Spring Winter
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable

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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