Bette Midler Quotes
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I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
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What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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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.
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[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.