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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

Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Please Singing Thinking
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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Fighting Race Years
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
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
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
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities 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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Art Cancer Light
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Childhood Dream Thinking

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

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