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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Bette Midler

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
Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Mean People Trying
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
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
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
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
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
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
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country

I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

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