Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
BETTE MIDLERI feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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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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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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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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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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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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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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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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