Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
BETTE MIDLERI feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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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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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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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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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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