If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
BETTE MIDLERSometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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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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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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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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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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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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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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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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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,
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