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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Bette Midler

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 you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Men Parent Pay
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
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
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
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
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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