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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

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
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
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
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
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
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
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
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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Beats Important Off Pissed
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking

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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