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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

Bette Midler

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 haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
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
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
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
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
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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
If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Flower Heart River
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real

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