Total contentment is only for cows.
BETTE MIDLERIt 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 married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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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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