People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERI’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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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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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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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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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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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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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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