Bette Midler Quotes
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
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We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.
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The supernatural does not exist.
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...there is almost nothing more important we can do for our young than convince them that production is more satisfying than consumption.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
