Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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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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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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