If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERLay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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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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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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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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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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