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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

From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
[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’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
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 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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Brain Play Random
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
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
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Funny Nice Wise
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 think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues 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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