Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
BETTE MIDLERI think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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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 believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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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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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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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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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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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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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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