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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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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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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I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.
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The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.
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To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
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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.
