Bette Midler Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.
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I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
