Bette Midler Quotes
There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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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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As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.
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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.
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The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.
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Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.
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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.
