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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

There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
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
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
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
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running

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.

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