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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

Bette Midler

I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
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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Energy Music Performers
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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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Holiday Religious Self
It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
Image 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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Ideas Song Voice
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
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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Born Entertaining Way
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset

I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

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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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