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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.

Bette Midler

When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Childhood Dream Thinking
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
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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Block Positively Sound
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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Different People Way
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Enough Foundation Great Lay
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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Energy Music Performers
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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Please Singing Thinking
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want

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