There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLERhen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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 try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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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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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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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