Bette Midler Quotes
There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
Quotes to Explore
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.
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They say the doctors and the nurses are least likely to catch the epidemic. If you have a friend who is dishonest or impure, the surest way to save yourself from him is to try to save him.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
