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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Bette Midler

I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Media Sleep Way
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
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
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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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Heaven Home World
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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Different People Way
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
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
It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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Dance Fear Philosophy
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Assessment Land Party
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running

If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

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