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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?

Bette Midler

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
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Effect Good Read Sensitive
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
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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Book Saws World
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank

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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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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