I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
BETTE MIDLERA 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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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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’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.
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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’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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