Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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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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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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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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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you're playing somebody's mother - and there aren't even a lot of those roles!
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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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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before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.
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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 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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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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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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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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Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.