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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

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
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Men Parent Pay
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Anything Stretch Work
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
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Doors Ideas Stars
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 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
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
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
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank

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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