Bette Midler Quotes
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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'm working my way toward divinity.
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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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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.
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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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My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.
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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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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 don't need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn't my style, because that's the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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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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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.
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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.
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I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.'
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!