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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

Bette Midler

Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
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
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
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
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
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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
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
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

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