You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
BETTE MIDLEREveryone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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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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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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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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 lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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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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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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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 can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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