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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.

Bette Midler

When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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Distance Men Ocean
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
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
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
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
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
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
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
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Energy Music Performers
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank

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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