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My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
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