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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

Bette Midler

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
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Stories Way Years
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 hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Depression Eating Speak
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave

It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

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