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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

Bette Midler

That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
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
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
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
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
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
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
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
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
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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Dresses Sound Way
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Please Singing Thinking

The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

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