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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.

Bette Midler

I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
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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Art Listening Moving
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth

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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