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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 believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
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
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
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
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Heaven Home World
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
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
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

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