Bette Midler Quotes
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
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I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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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've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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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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I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
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It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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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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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.