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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

Bette Midler

Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
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
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
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
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
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
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
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
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 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
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
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
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
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
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
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running

I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

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