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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.

Bette Midler

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
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
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
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice
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
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
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
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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Age Culture Mother

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