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We are all part of the ecosystem.

Bette Midler

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
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
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
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
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
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough 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
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Anything Stretch Work
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

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