I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
BETTE MIDLERI 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,
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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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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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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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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