I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
BETTE MIDLERMarriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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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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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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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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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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