If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERMe, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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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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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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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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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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