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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 don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Growing Style Up Writing
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
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
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
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
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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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
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
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Brain Play Random
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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 always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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
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
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
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas

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

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