Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
BETTE MIDLERImage is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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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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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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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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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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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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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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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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