I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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