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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,

Bette Midler

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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Certain Kind Wanted
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
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
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Media Sleep Way
Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Life Love Romantic
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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
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’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic

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