You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
BETTE MIDLERI married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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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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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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