If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
BETTE MIDLERIf I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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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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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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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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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.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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