Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
BETTE MIDLERThe only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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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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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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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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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 fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over 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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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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