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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Bette Midler

Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Heaven Home World
I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Growing Style Up Writing
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.
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Country Cutting Parks
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
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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Book Saws World
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Enough Foundation Great Lay
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years

I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

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