I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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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 you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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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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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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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’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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