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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.

Bette Midler

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Flower Heart River
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
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
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
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Enough Foundation Great Lay
You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total

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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