I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
BETTE MIDLERIt’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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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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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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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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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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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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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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