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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.

Bette Midler

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Life Love Romantic
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
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
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
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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Believe Gay Rumor
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Couple Sex
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
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
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
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Depression Eating Speak
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Energy Music Performers
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Assessment Land Party
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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Fighting Race Years
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.

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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.

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