I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLEREnough about me. What do you think about me?
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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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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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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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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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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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 wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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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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