I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLERI fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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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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.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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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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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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