Bette Midler Quotes
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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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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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.
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You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I'm not very complicated.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
