There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLERI’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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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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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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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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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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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