I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
BETTE MIDLERMe, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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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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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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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 married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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