I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
BETTE MIDLERMake sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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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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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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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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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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