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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.

Bette Midler

As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
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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Art Listening Moving
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
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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Air Giving People
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
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’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
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
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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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Art Cancer Light
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky

I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.

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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.

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