Bette Midler Quotes
I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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If you have injuries, it's tough.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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No one wants peace more than me.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
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All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
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In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
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I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
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My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course.
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Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.
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I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
