Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
BETTE MIDLERWhere did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
More Bette Midler Quotes
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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