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 MIDLERI’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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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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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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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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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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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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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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