[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
BETTE MIDLERI loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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