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Bette Midler

A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
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
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
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Enough Foundation Great Lay
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
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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Grow Up Mother People
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
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Careers People Want
It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
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
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work

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