More from Bette Midler
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.
Bette MidlerBette Midler Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
Bette MidlerBette Midler I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
Bette MidlerBette Midler [On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
Bette MidlerBette Midler My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
Bette MidlerBette Midler 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?
Bette MidlerBette Midler If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerBette Midler I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
Bette MidlerBette Midler Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
Bette MidlerBette Midler Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
Bette MidlerBette Midler When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
Bette MidlerBette Midler 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.
Bette MidlerBette Midler 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.
Bette MidlerBette Midler 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.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette MidlerBette Midler
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And in the end when the money is gone – will you still stay it was worth it.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby My soul speaks a language, only you can understand.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale In another life, you kept your word, and forever’s still ours for the taking.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Journey with struggle becomes a great tale in the future.
Carla StokesCarla Stokes I’m not asking that you take the bullet for me. I wish you’d shoot first.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery A rainy day is the perfect excuse to explore deeper feelings.
Emily BockEmily Bock Stop taking care of everyone else before you take care of yourself.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson Music is a weed, we all fallen souls are high on.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault I lost myself willfully in half-forgotten madness, futilely for in the throes, I still remember you.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa There’s a fine line between sanity and madness in being alive.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful In all of this chaos and madness, I found beauty.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski It may have been mad love but at least it made me taste something even if it was blood.
Allie MillerAllie Miller Humans need breaks. Humans need to cry. Humans need to feel mad, sad, happy, and all the emotions in between. And humans need to have boundaries.
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