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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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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
Bette Midler
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
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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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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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.
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I'm working my way toward divinity.
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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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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.
Bette Midler
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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 have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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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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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.
Bette Midler -
I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
Bette Midler
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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
Bette Midler