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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

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
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
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
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’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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People Space Use
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
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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Effect Good Read Sensitive
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
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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Growing Style Up Writing
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
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
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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Daughter Littles Sophie
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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Essence Issues Thinking

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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