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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

Bette Midler

hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
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
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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
Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Mean People Trying
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
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
Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Childhood Dream Thinking
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
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

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

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