If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
BETTE MIDLERThere comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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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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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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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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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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