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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.

Bette Midler

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running
Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Country Cutting Parks
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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Thinking Two War
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
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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Different Stars Years
Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Assessment Good Life Really
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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Art Cancer Light
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches

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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