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.
BETTE MIDLERIf somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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