I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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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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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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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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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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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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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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.
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