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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.

Bette Midler

I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Doors Ideas Stars
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
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 would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
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
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic

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