GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
BETTE MIDLERWhen the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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 think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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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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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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