Total contentment is only for cows.
BETTE MIDLERI haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Lay 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.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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