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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.

Bette Midler

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
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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Childhood Dream Thinking
I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Intelligent People Shrinking
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
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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Mean People Trying
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
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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Men Movie Running
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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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Depression Eating Speak
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
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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Thinking Two War

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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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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