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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.

Bette Midler

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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Believe Mean Moving
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
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.
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Anything Stretch Work
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
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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Cities People Want
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Please Singing Thinking
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.

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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.

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