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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.

Bette Midler

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
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
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
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
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love

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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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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