I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
BETTE MIDLERI can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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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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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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