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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.

Bette Midler

I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Intelligent People Shrinking
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
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 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
The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Heaven Home World
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Anything Stretch Work
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
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

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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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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