I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLERLet the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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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 firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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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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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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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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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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