If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
BETTE MIDLERIf they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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